November 5, 2012
As increased numbers of meningitis
patients leave hospital care, health officials remain uncertain how long it will
take for the patients' health to be fully restored.
"The clinical course for each patient
differs, and it is too early to say what their long-term function and care
issues will be," said Dr. Lakshmi Halasyamani, chief medical officer at Saint
Joseph Mercy Hospital in Washtenaw County, where at least 75 patients have been
treated for meningitis-related symptoms since late September. Of those, 45 are
recovering at home.
After-care issues came into sharper focus
with the recent hospitalization and release of George Cary, whose wife, Lillian,
was among seven Michigan residents to have died of fungal meningitis.
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