Autopsy shows Warren Central student did not die of bacterial meningitis

A 15-year-old Warren Central High School student died today and an autopsy showed he did not die from bacterial meningitis, which killed a Vicksburg Warren School District student earlier this week, Warren County Coroner Doug Huskey said this afternoon.

Wesley Husband, 35 Round Alley, was at The Street Clinic in a small waiting room detached from the main waiting area, when he died at 9:30 this morning, Huskey said.

“The autopsy is complete and the medical examiner believes she sees pneumonia-like symptoms, but further tests are required to confirm that,” Huskey said. Wesley’s symptoms had been coughing and congestion, Huskey said.

The teen had been out of school for several days and had been treated in an emergency room Tuesday and released, Huskey said.

Wesley had been taken to the clinic this morning by older relatives, among them his grandparents, the coroner said.

V’Shanti Washington, 6, a Dana Road Elementary School student died Sunday from bacterial meningitis. She had been hospitalized at University Medical Center’s Blair E. Batson’s Children’s Hospital in Jackson since Friday.

Separately, the district reported today that 30 students in the 9,000-student district had been diagnosed by physicians with swine flu, which has been reported across the nation over the past three months. One death has been recorded in the state, in Jackson County on the Gulf Coast.

Huskey said Wesley had no symptoms related to swine flu.

Read more in Friday’s Vicksburg Post