A CRECHE in Limerick has closed voluntarily after a child developed meningitis. The MidWestern Health Board stressed yesterday there was no need for parents to panic.
The director of public health with the health board, Dr Kevin Kelleher, said such cases at this time of the year were not unusual.
He added that the child was doing well, parents, workers and children at the creche were being screened and children, were being prescribed antibiotics.
He said the creche had closed of its own accord. Bacterial meningitis, he said, was a disease which generally affects infants and young people who had the same social habits as young people at discos and infants in creches.
There was no comment available from the owners of the creche, whose identity was not revealed.