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Study rethinks meningococcal signs.

Australasian Business Intelligence, January, 2006

Byline: Julie Robotham

Jan 11, 2006 (The Age - 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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