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CASPER, Wyo. (AP) – A school district in southern Wyoming closed four of its campuses after a diagnosis of bacterial meningitis was diagnosed in a fourth-grade student.
KTWO-AM announced that Carbon County School District No. 2 had canceled its classes Thursday at Hanna, Elk Mountain and Medicine Bow Elementary Schools, as well as at Hanna High School.
Classes will resume Monday after campus disinfection.
Superintendent Jim Copeland said Thursday in a letter to parents that the only confirmed case of meningitis was Hanna Elementary. He says other schools have been closed as a precaution.
He said that the student's family initially thought that the child had the flu. The child has since been hospitalized.
Meningitis is an infection of the membranes surrounding the brain and spinal cord.
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