Student With Bacterial Meningitis Is Prosecutor’s Son

ATHENS, Ohio—New developments have come to light in the case of two Ohio University students who contracted bacterial meningitis.

One of the students involved is the son of Franklin County Prosecutor Ron O’Brien, NBC 4 learned Tuesday.

O’Brien’s son is being treated at Riverside Methodist Hospital.

The other student, Michael Crane of Bellbrook, is at a Dayton area hospital.

The university wanted to release the students’ names so that their friends and classmates will be on guard for symptoms.

In the meantime, the university has given antibiotics to 79 students and vaccines to seven students.

They have also cleaned dorm rooms of the ill students.

The university said the two students involved shared an art class, but did not know each other personally.

Symptoms of bacterial meningitis include severe headache, stiff neck, fever, disorientation, nausea, vomiting and lethargy.

The infection can be passed through contact with saliva: touching, kissing, drinking from the same cup or being very near someone who sneezes.

Anyone with symptoms should seek immediate medical treatment.

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