Health district investigates meningitis case
MOSES LAKE — The Grant County Health District has confirmed a case locally of a rare and dangerous form of meningitis typically found in Sub-Saharan Africa, and is looking for other people who may have been exposed. According to a District news release, a single case of Invasive Neisseria Meningitidis, a disease common in parts of Africa from Senegal on the Atlantic coast through to central Ethiopia, that appeared in Grant County in mid-July.
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