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Adelaide man in his 20s in hospital with meningococcal disease

A young man in Adelaide has been diagnosed with meningococcal disease. (Supplied: US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Public Health Image Library)

A man in his 20s from Adelaide has been hospitalised with invasive meningococcal disease, as cases almost double from this time last year.

The strain has been identified as serotype B, and the man is in a stable condition.

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