UGA: No meningitis threat after student dies from illness
Officials at the University of Georgia are alerting the public that there is no threat of meningitis on the Athens campus after a student died Monday morning.
Channel 2 Action News reported that the student died from encephalitis about 7:30 a.m. at Athens Regional Medical Center.
UGA and friends identified the student as Tanzila Alam, 18, a freshman biology major who moved to America from Bangladesh two years ago, Channel 2 reported.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution had been contacted Monday evening about the student's illness possibly being bacterial meningitis, which is contagious.
“Contrary to some rumors — there is NO evidence of bacterial meningitis on the #UGA campus,” said a Twitter post from the university Monday evening.
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