The Epidemiology Unit emphasises that there is no need for the general people to be overly concerned about the bacterial disease condition known as meningococcal meningitis.
Every year, people with the same condition are recorded in Sri Lanka, according to Dr. Samitha Ginige, Director of the Epidemiology Unit. She added that this is not an unusual occurrence.
Two prisoners at the Galle Prison passed away earlier this week, while more than a dozen others were taken to the hospital with a sickness that was at first considered “unknown.” Meningococcal meningitis, a bacterial form of meningitis brought on by the meningococcus bacteria, was eventually identified as the cause of both the hospitalisation and the patient’s passing.
