13,000 immunized following meningococcal outbreak

Interior Health continues to offer immunization clinics this week following an outbreak of meningococcal disease in B.C.’s Okanagan Valley.

The health authority declared the outbreak in December following at least 11 confirmed cases and one death in the southern Interior. An additional case was confirmed within Interior Health on December 28, but outside of the Okanagan region.

The health authority will not offer more details about the one death, citing privacy concerns.

“As of January 5, we’d immunized about 13,000 people