In the Belgorod-Dnestrovsky Odessa region on April 18 from a transient meningitis died 15-year-old girl.

Ekaterina studied at the Odessa Technical College. For the weekend she went to her relatives in Belgorod-Dnestrovsky to celebrate Easter, but on Saturday, April 16, she felt unwell. The girl was taken to one of the local medical institutions, but she could not help - she died on April 18. She had a transient meningitis.

After the happened students of the college who were in the circle of communication of the girl, they were sent for examination to the Odessa Infectious Diseases Hospital. As reported by the media, referring to the. Director of the health department of the Odessa City Council Yevgeny Grigoriev, checked 15 people who did not have an infection. True, it was noted that these are only preliminary results.

Meanwhile, our source in the Odessa city hospital reported that in fact virtually all teachers and students of the college were being tested. And ten people allegedly found the symptoms of the same virus, from which the girl died, now they are in the infectious diseases hospital. Doctors fear that this could be the beginning of an epidemic.

The final results of the tests promise to be made public next week.

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Short-term meningitis or meningococcal infection is a dangerous form of the disease affecting the membranes of the spinal cord and brain. Due to the intensity of the disease, it is often called "fulminant meningitis". Short-term meningitis becomes fatal for adults already a day after infection, and for children - in only a few hours. Transmitted by airborne droplets.