By Mariza Reyes
POSTED: Tuesday, February
17, 2009
UPDATED: 11:32 am CST
February 17, 2009
LA MARQUE, Texas -- La
Marque Independent School District students will return home from school
Tuesday with a potentially frightening letter for their parents, KPRC Local
2 reported.
A boy at La Marque Middle
School, 1431 Bayou Road, may have died from meningitis. Dandre Alexander,
15, died Saturday at Texas Children's Hospital.
The Harris County Medical
Examiner's Office said Alexander died from "brain herniation secondary to
meningitis."
The hospital is still
waiting on blood work.
"We have provided a letter
to the La Marque School District because this isn't the time for parents to
panic or anything. We state that we will be doing the investigation and
we're looking for any close intimate contact," said Kurt Koopmann, public
information officer for the Galveston County Medical District.
Symptoms of meningitis are
similar to having the flu, which include headaches, nausea, vomiting and
sometimes a rash.
