A case of invasive meningococcal infection (meningitis) was reported to the Provence Alpes-Côte d’Azur Regional Health Agency (ARS) by the Aix-en-Provence hospital center on Monday September 30. This concerns staff from a primary school in Aix-en-Provence.
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This Thursday, October 3, the ARS announced that a case of meningitis had been reported in a school in Aix-en-Provence on Monday, September 30. After the discovery of this case, all people who had been in contact with the infected person were vaccinated.
Invasive meningococcal infection is one of the notifiable diseases. Cases must be reported by clinicians and biologists to the Regional Health Agency which searches for contact subjects around the cases and implements individual prevention measures (antibiotic prophylaxis, and in certain cases, vaccination).
“The investigation carried out on Monday evening around the case made it possible to identify the contacts at risk: the children accompanied by the professional, the direct class neighbors of these children and certain members of the staff. All these people were informed of the situation and received preventive treatment with antibiotics to prevent the onset of the disease.indicates the ARS.
A medical hotline was organized by ARS Paca within the school, in the presence of health professionals. “This permanence made it possible to deliver prescriptions to parents of students and to answer their questions,” details the ARS.
“As the patient is affected by a bacterial strain (serogroup) which is not covered by the meningococcal vaccine provided for in the vaccination schedule, a vaccination campaign will be organized by ARS Paca and offered from tomorrow, Friday October 4, to the whole school, students and professionals”, specifies the ARS. This campaign is organized jointly with the national education services, maternal and child protection of the Bouches-du-Rhône departmental council, the public health service of the city of Aix-en-Provence and the multi-professional health community in the Aix Sainte-Victoire region.
