Officials Recruit Did Not Die Of Strep

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New military recruit died of meningitis shortly after being vaccinated

for it.

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Officials: Recruit Did Not Die Of Strep A

Tue Dec 24, 1:56 PM ET Add Local - KGTV TheSanDiegoChannel.com to My

A Marine recruit who died Dec. 15 had an overwhelming meningococcal

bacteria infection that was different from the streptococcus A that

infected 185 other recruits at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot, it was

reported Tuesday.

No other recruits at the MCRD have shown symptoms or have been diagnosed

with a meningococcal infection, Capt. Malone, medical services

director at Naval Medical Center San Diego, told the San Diego Union-Tribune.

It was purely chance that the two separate bacterial infections,

meningococcal and step A, hit the recruit population at the same time,

Malone said.

Other members of Pvt. Zavala's platoon received a special oral

antibiotic the day he died that should safeguard them against the bacteria,

Malone said.

Doctors did not give the antibiotic, called levofloxacin, to all 4,500

recruits and depot staff because no one else showed symptoms of the rapidly

moving infection that killed Zavala, Malone said.

Recruits in other platoons and the public are not at risk because the

bacteria is only spread to others in the same living area, Malone said.

" You have to be in the same household, " Malone told the Union-Tribune. " You

don't get it by just walking across the parade ground. "

All recruits entering MCRD are vaccinated against the meningococcal

bacteria, but the vaccine is not always effective, Malone said.

One recruit remains in critical condition from the step A-related pneumonia

outbreak that struck the depot.

More than 126 people were hospitalized with pneumonia, though not all were

related to strep A.

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