Ninth case of disease

A TEENAGE boy has been hospitalised with meningococcal in Tasmania, the state’s ninth case of the disease in two months.

The 15-year-old from Launceston has contracted the B strain and is in a stable condition, public health services clinical director Faline Howes says.

A teenage girl from Hobart died from meningococcal in July, while a four-year-old girl from the state’s northwest was diagnosed with the B strain earlier this week.

Public health services said there were “no links” between the cases.