AAP General News (Australia)
12-23-2007
NSW: Blood test negative before boy died of meningitis: hospital
Hospital officials say the meningitis death of an eight-year-old Sydney boy is a tragedy
.. but his blood test didn't indicate he was infected with the virus.
Punchbowl Public School Year 2 student ISARAELU PELE died on Tuesday after a visit
to Bankstown and then one to Westmead Children's Hospital .. where he vomited blood and
had a temperature of 38 degrees.
The Sunday Telegraph reports he was sent home by doctors who said there was nothing
wrong with him.
A Westmead Hospital spokeswoman says a blood test conducted during his visit didn't
indicate ISARAELU was suffering from the deadly virus.
She says more details will emerge once the NSW Coroner investigates the boy's death.
AAP RTV vpm/af/sw
KEYWORD: PELE HOSPITAL (SYDNEY)
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