School Concerned Over Teen's Meningitis Death
Officials Plan Crisis Team Meeting
POSTED: Monday, January 5,
UPDATED: 11:38 am EST January 5,
2004
A 16-year-old girl died reportedly of complications from bacterial meningitis over the holiday weekend.
Jessica Martinez, a junior at L'Anse Creuse High School North, complained of cold-like symptoms on New Year's Day, according to a report in The Macomb Daily. Her condition turned life-threatening in a matter of minutes, the paper reported.Martinez's family reportedly took her off life support at Children's Hospital in Detroit Friday.Officials at L'Anse Creuse High School North said they expect there will be concerns with parents and students at the school following her death."We certainly would like to know more about where she may have contracted it, so as to dispel any concern about it (meningitis) being in the schools," Edward March, school board vice president, told the paper.School officials reportedly planned to hold a crisis team meeting before classes resumed Monday following the death of Martinez and two other students over the holiday break. Students Marvin Chris Admon and Jack Lark IV were killed in a car crash on Interstate 94 at North River Road on Dec. 19.
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