text: New meningitis scare hits Brotain. LOBDON 1996-12-06 
   A boy has died from meningitis and a girl from the same school has contracted the disease in the second such scare to hit Brotain in as many weeks, health authorities said on Friday. The 16-year-old who attended Sale Grammar  School in the northern Englandd city of Machester died less than a day after becoming ill. The 15-year-old girl is also suffering from the disease and hospital officials described her condition as serious. " At the moment there is no evidence the two cases are linked. However, we are assuming they are as a precaution for the time being, " a spokeswoman said. The more than 1, 260 students at the school are being given antibiotics as a precaution. Waels grappled with its own cluster of meningitis cases on a university campus in Cardidf. At least two people have died and hundreds have been vaccinated in an effort to contain the virus. In Scoltand, eight people have died and hundreds more are fighting a widespread food-poisoning outbreak. A health authority spokeswoman said 78 people suspected of having the disease, including 64 confirmed cases, were still being treated. Three were listed in poor condition. More than 290 people have reported symptoms in Laanrkshire county, the worst-hit area, since the outbreak first came to light after people ate tainted meat pies at a pensioners' lunch.
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