NSW woman dies of meningococcal disease after attending music festival

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9News has confirmed the woman attended the Spilt Milk festival at Exhibition Park in Canberra on November 26, but it is not known if that is where she contracted the disease.

The woman, aged in her late teens, is the third person to die of the disease in NSW this year.

Days after the festival, ACT Health issued an alert for attendees after they discovered a person in Canberra Hospital with the virus attended the festival.There have been 29 cases overall so far in 2022.NSW Health said cases tended to increase in late winter and early spring, with a slight surge in recent weeks.People who attended the Spilt Milk festival in Canberra last weekend have been asked to monitor for symptoms of meningococcal.

Babies can receive the meningococcal B vaccine, the most dominant strain, from six weeks of age. It is free for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander babies and in South Australia.

 

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Wow it's clearly that people don't really look after them selfs at all so sad

Really tragic, i hope her family is getting through the grief

My concern about the spikt milk festival, That mean starvation on way to Australia

Now do Covid . .

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