MARTIN SAVIDGE, CNN ANCHOR: The outbreak of the bacteria in Alliance, Ohio. It has killed two people, and also generated a great deal of fear in that community. We are talking now with the correspondent from WJWTV Kathy Kronenberger who is there with the very latest. Kathy, good evening to you.</s>KATHY KRONENEBERGER, WJW, ALLIANCE, OHIO: Good evening, Martin. Behind me is Alliance Community Hospital. We are about 15 miles northeast of Canton. Behind me there is a line of people, several hundred people, who have been making their way through this line. They started at about 6:00 this afternoon. It is now after 10, and they are just behind me, a few hours ahead of them. They are here to get a pill to help stop the deadly spread of this bacterial meningitis. In the past week, we have had three high school students from two different schools near Alliance come down with bacterial meningitis. Last weekend, two of those students died. Now, today, a third student has been diagnosed as having bacterial meningitis. She is a senior of a local high school here, supposed to graduate tomorrow. She has fortunately been upgraded to guarded condition, and that is the good news.</s>SAVIDGE: All right, Kathy. How long will those people wait, and how long will the injections, the inoculations, go on?</s>KRONENBERGER: Well, they are not going to do injections at this point. They are just handing out pills to help stop the spread of this bacteria. They are going to decide in the next 24 hours if they are going to do immunizations. These people here have been here for four hours. They still have a couple of hours ahead of them before they can get the pills.</s>SAVIDGE: All right. Kathy Kronenberger, joining us from our affiliate WJWTV. Thank you very much. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com
Outbreak of Meningitis Generates Fear in Ohio