A young man attending a camp on Auckland's Motutapu Island has died from a suspected case of meningococcal disease, prompting an emergency trip to the island by health authorities
A young man attending a camp on Auckland's Motutapu Island has died from a suspected case of meningococcal disease, prompting an emergency trip to the island by health authorities
21 October 2018
The 16-year-old, who was from Kerikeri, was among 190 people attending the St John youth camp on the island this weekend.
He died in Auckland City Hospital last night.
Auckland Regional Public Health Service has scrambled staff to the island to provide protective antibiotics and assess the risk to others, however only a few people were considered to be close contacts and at risk of infection.
A public health nurse and doctor have been to the island to give antibiotics to the young people who shared the same sleeping quarters and another person possibly exposed in the first aid room.
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