4 Wyoming schools close after meningitis case confirmed
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A school district in southern Wyoming has closed four of its campuses after a fourth-grade student was diagnosed with bacterial meningitis.
KTWO-AM reports Carbon County School District No. 2 canceled classes Thursday at the elementary schools in Hanna, Elk Mountain and Medicine Bow, as well as the high school in Hanna.
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Classes will resume Monday after the campuses are disinfected.
Superintendent Jim Copeland says in a letter to parents Thursday that the one confirmed meningitis case is from Hanna Elementary. He says the other schools were closed as a precaution.
He says the student's family initially thought the child had the flu. The child has since been hospitalized.
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Meningitis is an infection of the membranes surrounding the brain and spinal cord.