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I'm Sandy Gough. I'm an infectious disease specialist and faculty with the University of South Florida

since 1999. In 2009, our son Phillip went boating with his family, his aunt and uncle in Cousins,

on Lake area and Polk County. It's a freshwater lake, spring fed, and they spent the day swimming

and tubing and just to really enjoying the day on the water. And about five or six days after

he returned, he developed a game over and during the evening and said that he had a headache,

which was kind of unusual for him. And so we checked to see if he had a fever,

did he have any other symptoms? We thought maybe he just was a bit hydrated to summer.

And he seemed like he was okay. He didn't have any next stiffness. We think about and

manage right away and that wasn't the case. So we let him go to bed.

For the next morning, he was difficult to wake up.

And I had gone to work early and my husband who's a pediatric hospitalist went into check on him

and his neck was stiff at that time. He had trouble bending his neck forward.

And obviously that's a warning sign of men and child. So he rushed him into the hospital

where he works and very quickly had him receive a spinal tap. And shortly after that,

he was diagnosed with a very severe meningitis. He had a lot of inflammation.

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