Meningitis Outbreak in Llano County

A meningitis outbreak was announced by the Texas Health Department in Llano County, where five or possibly six students are suspected of having it. Although the infected children have viral meningitis, the less serious case while its counterpart bacterial meningitis kills about 15 percent of everyone it infects, many are still worried. This particular issue requires constant monitoring not only for the students infected but body of children around them. So far the disease has infected three different students at three different public schools. This in turn could have potentially infected three different student bodies, resulting in a school-wide epidemic. What else is alarming was the response of the Llano County superintendant Dennis Hill. He was only aware of five cases whereas the Health Department reported six cases. Doesn’t the responsibility of recording and researching said infections fall on the man that oversees operations of all three schools? Furthermore the conflicting information from both parties results in the conclusion that maybe they should be working together so that all responsible parties have the statistics to better serve the families of the students infected but also those that have children attending with them to contain and control the disease. One more point that should come to light is the Health Department’s failure to realize the current location and condition of each student and the lack of knowledge as to whether these students are hospitalized or quarantined, or the possibility of them potentially having come in contact with other members of Llano County. Could they have passed the disease on to others with compromised immune systems unwittingly? Only time will tell.