Four students from Boyangzhen No. 1 Middle School in the city of
Huazhou, south China's Guangdong Province, have been diagnosed with
epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis and one of them died, the
provincial disease prevention and control center said on
Saturday.
The four students, all 13 years old, are classmates in the
school. They successively suffered headache, fever and vomiting
from December 14 to 20 and were then confirmed to be infectious
with epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis, said Peng Guowen, an
official with the center.
(Shanghai Daily December 25, 2006)