The Ministry of Health traces its contacts in order to provide precautionary medication.
He is in serious condition in the Nicosia General Hospital of Intensive Care Unit with a 17 -year -old with meningitis.
According to the CPC, the press officer of the Ministry of Health, Dimitris Konstantinou, this is the third incident lately, noting the clinical situation of the 17 -year -old “serious”.
He noted that the Ministry of Health is tracing its contacts in order to provide precautionary medication.
He also said that the ministry is “closely monitoring the situation” and “alert”.
It is recalled that two other incidents of bacterial meningitis, which involved a high school student in Limassol, as well as an infant from Paphos, were recorded last week.
In a statement last week, Medical Services and Public Health Services report that the transmission of meningococcus requires close contact from person to person through respiratory stagnation.
The risk mainly concerns people living in the same house as the patient (especially children), who are in the same classroom daily, or adults who work for many hours in the same indoor area (eg office).
Meningococcus, clarifying, is not transmitted by brief or casual contact.
It is noted that in 2024 four cases of meningococcal disease were reported to medical services, and three cases have not been reported since the beginning of 2025, which are not related to each other and are not a confusion.
SOURCE: KYPE