 In recent weeks, there have been several new cases of bacterial meningitis and septicemia confirmed according to the Meningitis Research Foundation. Following the death of a student from University College Cork who contracted the disease earlier this month, we spoke to DCU students to see how much they knew about meningitis and if they knew the symptoms to look out for. I actually don't know anything about it, so it would be good to find out something. So there are a few different symptoms. I think the most common one is the pain and the back of the neck. So I know meningitis can be fatal and it also can be quick. I know that you get a rash with it and if you put it last, the rash and the rash doesn't disappear, well then that's a sign of it. There's also a few other symptoms like if you can't look at light as well and that's also another bad sign as well and yeah it's fairly rampant on the campus at the moment. Well not rampant but you know it's around but yeah people should know what the symptoms are. I don't really know anything about meningitis specifically. I know that it's um when you call it a disease like I know that I know it's a sickness that like people have in that you could potentially it could be fatal but other like statistics and stuff like that I don't really know any statistics about meningitis. So far this academic year there have been a total of two confirmed cases of meningitis in DCU. We spoke to St Pat's student nurse Shanae McGrath to find out more about meningitis. Now meningitis can be viral or bacterial but the bacterial is more serious than the viral. Well we're writing in general and it's but it's very very treatable. So as I see the symptoms can be very broad. You know there can be muscle pain, nausea, vomiting, feeling unwell, temperature, don't like loud noises and photophobia then, headache, acute fever and neck stiffness would be the ones that we would be more concerned about let's say all right. And oftentimes it's quite rapid. You're always here with the rash and the tumbler and did the rash fade but at that point you are actually very unwell because that means you've septicemia. So we have this brain here and we have the meninges here and then we have the skull here all right. So if you think it's this blue layer we're looking at here. So that's where your CSF, so your cerebral spinal fluid goes around and all around down right through to the spinal cord and that's the area that's affected with meningitis. Early detection, early treatment will improve outcomes hugely with meningitis.