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Suitland Parents Warned After Pupil's Death From Meningitis; 11-Year-Old Girl at Edgar Allan Poe School Contracted a Highly Contagious Form of Bacterial Disease

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 19880221
Author:Rochelle Riley

An 11-year-old Prince George's County sixth grader has died of a highly contagious form of meningitis, prompting health officials to warn parents of her Suitland elementary school's nearly 300 pupils.

After the death Thursday, county health officials made 130 phone calls to the families of pupils who spent time with her. Health officials continued calling parents yesterday out of heightened concern because the girl, who attended classes in a combined fifth- and sixth-grade room, also had contact with younger pupils as a volunteer in the second grade.

The child died of meningococcal ...

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