PORTAGE (WKZO-AM) — Classrooms and common spaces at Portage Northern High School have been disinfected as a precaution after a student was diagnosed with bacterial meningitis earlier this week.
Parents were contacted by both school and Kalamazoo County Health Department officials. They were told that, while the disease can be contagious, it takes an actual contact with oral or nasal secretions to contract the infection.
Health officials believe the risk is minimal.
Only one case has been identified, but parents are being asked to watch their children for severe headaches, fever, stiffness in the neck and vomiting, which are all symptoms of the disease.
The infected student hasn’t been in school since earlier this week.
