FORT COLLINS, Colo.—Larimer County health officials are focusing on pick-up hockey players as they investigate a meningitis outbreak that has killed one man and made three others seriously ill.
Two of the three played in a hockey game on June 9 in Fort Collins.
One of the players, 29-year-old Brian Wormus, died Monday. Two other players are hospitalized in critical condition: one in Fort Collins and the other in Montana, where he was vacationing.
A Colorado State University student is in critical condition in a Lakewood hospital.
Health director Adrienne LeBailly says it’s possible that the bacteria may have been spread when players removed their mouth guards and shook their hands at the end of the game.
About 30 hockey players from the first game have now been treated with antibiotics to prevent them from contracting the disease. Officials are trying to contact all players from the other game.
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Information from: Fort Collins Coloradoan,
