Student fighting bacterial meningitis.(News)

0 Comments | Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), December, 2001 | by Callimachi, Rukmini

Byline: Rukmini Callimachi Daily Herald Staff Writer A 23-year-old Streamwood resident, who was studying at Bradley University, is in serious condition after contracting meningococcal meningitis, the bacterial form of the infectious disease. His parents, both immigrants from Kerala, India, left their home in Streamwood to be at their son's side in the neural intensive care unit of St.

Francis Medical Center in downstate Peoria, where the young man was admitted on Saturday. They stressed that their son was "improving" and would soon be transferred to a non-intensive care ward. They asked, however, that their family not be named, for fear of the stigma that might be associated with their son having contracted an infectious disease. Meningitis, an...