Viral Meningitis outbreak at Peabody Second Teacher hospitalized

[Anonymous]

A second Peabody teacher has contracted viral meningitis and has been hospitalized.

[Anonymous]

Do you have any more details? We aren't a Peabody family, but have a kid that plays on their playground and the one across the street plus with many Peabody friends who is currently vomiting, coughing with a high fever.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do you have any more details? We aren't a Peabody family, but have a kid that plays on their playground and the one across the street plus with many Peabody friends who is currently vomiting, coughing with a high fever.

Is your kid able to move his/her head up and down freely? Or if they try to touch their chin to their chest do they say it hurts or seem stiff? You should probably take your kid to the doc either way, but absolutely take them if the above is hard/painful for them.

[Anonymous]

is that the kind where you have to make out with the first person who has it? or is it spread by telephone like ebola? thanks OBUMMER.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:is that the kind where you have to make out with the first person who has it? or is it spread by telephone like ebola? thanks OBUMMER.

PP I guess the advantage of starting your week random and unhelpful is, you can only go up from there. Is that the idea?

[Anonymous]

This looks fake. I can't find any info of DC meningitis since the Georgetown student in Sept.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This looks fake. I can't find any info of DC meningitis since the Georgetown student in Sept.

This. Definitely troll material.

[Anonymous]

Definitely not fake. I was told personally today that a second case of viral meningitis has been detected in the K grade a Peabody by a Peabody teacher. Will post info on viral meningitis in a moment.

[Anonymous]

http://www.cdc.gov/meningitis/viral.html
Some forms can be transmitted by droplet. But those are not common. A family member of mine had meningitis this Spring, and no one in his family became infected, although we touched him often. A good argument to make sure your child is vaccinated on time, though.

[jsteele]

Not fake. Here is a picture of a letter that was sent to the cluster PTA:

[Anonymous]

http://washington.cbslocal.com/2014/10/27/teacher-at-d-c-elementary-school-reportedly-has-viral-meningitis/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This looks fake. I can't find any info of DC meningitis since the Georgetown student in Sept.

The 19-year old Georgetown student died only Sept. 16th, apparently from the disease.

http://www.myfoxboston.com/story/26548947/georgetown-university-student-dies-from-meningitis

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This looks fake. I can't find any info of DC meningitis since the Georgetown student in Sept.

The 19-year old Georgetown student died only Sept. 16th, apparently from the disease.

http://www.myfoxboston.com/story/26548947/georgetown-university-student-dies-from-meningitis

I'm betting it was bacterial meningitis which is very serious.

[Anonymous]

surprised this hasn't been relegated to the health forum, like all the ebola discussions

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:surprised this hasn't been relegated to the health forum, like all the ebola discussions

I'm surprised that you don't know that there are ebola discussions in several forums other than the health forum, including this forum:

http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/418309.page