Rare meningitis strain kills student at Drexel University

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Rare meningitis strain kills student at Drexel University

By Daniel Kelley PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Drexel University confirmed on Friday that a student died this week from the rare strain of meningitis that hit Princeton University and the University of California at Santa Barbara last fall. Stephanie Ross, 19, a mechanical engineering major from the Pittsburgh area, was found unresponsive in her room at Phi Mu sorority last week, according to a letter sent to the university community by school President John Fry. Drexel, located in downtown Philadelphia, is tracking down anyone who had recent contact with Ross in an effort to provide prophylactic antibiotics to ward off infection, school officials said in a statement. Ross recently attended a regional officer training conference for the Phi Mu sorority.

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