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Health officials in Hamilton, Ont., are searching for anyone who may have come in contact with a 17-year-old girl who died Wednesday of meningococcal meningitis.
Officials are looking for people who may have come in contact with Carmen Eisho of Hamilton last weekend.
Hamilton Public Health's website now lists Eisho's whereabouts during that time: a house party on West 4 Street, Rokbar nightclub on Hess Street and Basha restaurant on Upper James Street.
The website said Eisho's "household and identified close contacts" have already received treatment.
Dr. Ninh Tran, the associate medical officer of health, said it's unclear where Eisho became infected with the disease, which attacks the brain and spinal cord.
"It's possible that she's always been carrying around this bacteria and just now her immune system happened to have gone down and she developed the illness," Tran said. "We don't have any information to suggest that she received [it] from anyone in particular right now."
Currently, all Grade 7 students in Ontario are supposed to be vaccinated against this strain of meningitis.
Officials are looking for people who may have come in contact with Carmen Eisho of Hamilton last weekend.
Hamilton Public Health's website now lists Eisho's whereabouts during that time: a house party on West 4 Street, Rokbar nightclub on Hess Street and Basha restaurant on Upper James Street.
The website said Eisho's "household and identified close contacts" have already received treatment.
Dr. Ninh Tran, the associate medical officer of health, said it's unclear where Eisho became infected with the disease, which attacks the brain and spinal cord.
"It's possible that she's always been carrying around this bacteria and just now her immune system happened to have gone down and she developed the illness," Tran said. "We don't have any information to suggest that she received [it] from anyone in particular right now."
Currently, all Grade 7 students in Ontario are supposed to be vaccinated against this strain of meningitis.
