EDMONDS – A Washington State University student hospitalized with a blood infection has been released from Stevens Hospital in Edmonds, a Snohomish Health District spokeswoman said Friday.
The 19-year-old, whose name was not released, was the third student with meningococcemia, a bacterial blood infection caused by the same organism as meningococcal meningitis.
Eight other friends and family members of the student, who live in Snohomish County, were treated with antibiotics. But none have come down with symptoms of the disease, health district officials said.
WSU health officials have recommended that all students be vaccinated against meningococcal disease.
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Jail assault: Several people were being held in segregation Friday in connection with a stabbing at the Washington State Reformatory.
Authorities ended a lockdown Friday that began after the stabbing of an inmate Sunday night in a prison recreation yard, associate superintendent Willie Daigle said Friday.
The prisoner, a 42-year-old convicted murderer and robber from Spokane County, was stabbed in the neck. He remains in the reformatory’s hospital.
“It seems like the motive is kind of drug-related, having to do with something inside the institution,” Daigle said.
Prisoners returned to their regular routine, leaving their cells for breakfast and going to work, he said.
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