A child younger than 10 years old is sick with possible meningitis after two young adults died in an alarming spell in recent weeks.
The HSE is investigating four reported cases of meningococcal meningitis/septicaemia in Ireland dating from the last week of September.
The life-threatening illness has already claimed the lives of two young people, an 18-year-old boy from Dublin and a young woman in Limerick who was under 30 years old.
