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Meningitis Case Found In SC Prison
By carolinalive.com
Published: 01/28/2011

Josh Gelinas, a spokesperson for the South Carolina Department of Corrections, says an inmate at Evans Correctional Institution in Bennettsville got sick Tuesday, and they thought he might have contracted spinal meningitis.

The inmate was immediately taken to the hospital, and the entire prison placed on lockdown.

Gelinas says, Thursday afternoon they learned the inmate tested negative for spinal meningitis, but positive for bacterial meningitis.

The lockdown was lifted, but the inmates' dormitory was thoroughly sanitized and cleaned, according to Gelinas.

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