Sneaky Killer

Montreal’s Marianopolis College student died after her 18th birthday celebration of meningococcal infection.

She got sick her birthday party and had to leave the event early. Student Ambro Kanawati.said, “It was her birthday and she was drinking, then she started vomiting and everyone thought that she was vomiting because she drank too much, but it was actually because she had the sickness.”

The Department of public health is launching an epidemiological survey because the last death attributed to meningococcal disease in Montreal was in 2017.

The Department of public health is launching an epidemiological survey because the last death attributed to meningococcal disease in Montreal was in 2017.

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