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Leg pain, cold hands the first meningococcal warning signs.
Australasian Business Intelligence, January, 2006
Byline: Julie Robotham
Jan 11, 2006 (The West Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) -- A new study by a team at Oxford University has mapped the progress of the symptoms of meningococcal bacterial infection. The team
found that cold hands and feet, along with leg pain, are better indicators of an infection than light sensitivity or the classic purple rash that often appears in late stages of the disease. The study of 448 infected children concluded that cold hands and feet and leg pains appear about seven
hours before the rash and up to 10 hours before children develop sensitivity to light.Matthew Thompson, of Oxford's primary health care department, claims cold extremities and...
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