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on Bacterial Meningitis and Haemophilus Vaccine" "A Case Study At half past three one afternoon during late fall of 1987, Catherine received a phone call from her mother. She felt a moment of panic. Was Josephine all right? Catherine worked at a daycare center and Josephine, her 34-month-old daughter, was being taken care of by Catherine's mother during the day while Catherine was at work. "You have to come immediately. Josephine has a fever, and she is delirious her mother said" There was no need for Cath and her mother to say what they both had on their minds. In the day care center where Catherine worked, two children had recently developed bacterial meningitis. The children had both been given an intravenous 10-day course of cefuroxime, an antibiotic related to penicillin. In both cases, Haemophilus influenza had been cultured from a specimen of cerebrospinal fluid. Catherine told her mother to wrap Josephine in a blanket, and she hurried home to meet them. On the way to the hospital, it occurred to Catherine that she had forgotten to check Josephine's condition, because she was so anxious to get to the hospital. As they approached the hospital, Josephine was unconscious. A sample of Josephine's cerebrospinal fluid showed an increase number of leukocytes (approximately 8 x 10/L) During the late 1980's, a novel Haemophilus vaccine (Hib vaccine) was developed and shown to protect within the first year of life. Therefore, the risk of such a case occurring at a daycare is very rare.

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