The second death of a patient from meningitisin a month in western Greece has caused concern. The 54-year-old woman from Pyrgos breathed her last from lightning meningitis, the same strain that had infected the young student in Patras.

“I came from the army, I’m a soldier in Athens. I came back on Friday, I took my mother in my arms, everything was fine without anything happening and after an hour she started having colds,” the 54-year-old’s son told ANT1.

“At night when she was sleeping she was cold, she turned over in bed, she was not well, she got up to go to the toilet, my father took her. She couldn’t speak, she was just mumbling. We took her to the hospital and they intubated her. Her whole body was covered with scars from the illness. They told us that if it’s meningitis, we can’t… Within eight hours, no one expected it. The doctor called us and said ‘condolences’,” he said.

Relatives of the 54-year-old woman say the only symptom she had in the past few days was a sore throat. The HOSHA traced the woman’s contacts and everyone was given chemoprophylaxis.