Since December 20, several cases of meningitis in Navarra and the evolution has been followed, providing medication to more than 300 people as a prevention. Today, the Department of Health of the Government of Navarra has confirmed a new case of meningococcal disease in a five year old boy, who is admitted to the Intensive Care Unit of the Virgen del Camino Hospital. Meningococcus is type B and in the present case medication has already been given to the 17 people who could have been infected.
María Kutz., The Minister of Health, explained at a press conference that there are two other cases of young children who are admitted and that the disease is expected to be confirmed in the next few hours.
If these two cases were confirmed, there would be nine people affected, although the initial outbreak, which was detected on December 20, only two people are admitted.
On whether or not it was an epidemic, the head of the Epidemiology Service of the Institute of Public Health, Aurelio Barricarte, explained that the new cases "have no epidemiological relationship either between them or between the previous cases" and that the temporal proximity is It is simply because "we are at a time when environmentally transmitted respiratory diseases are favored."
