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Nearly 100 Marine recruits hit by strep A
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Tuesday Dec 17th, 2002 4:31 PM
One has died from a rash that started on his foot. http://www.thekcrachannel.com/news/1841524/detail.html
Nearly 100 Marine recruits hit by strep A

By Brian Hazle
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

December 15, 2002

Nearly 100 Marines have been hospitalized with a potentially life-threatening form of streptococcus infections, a Navy spokesman said yesterday.

Three of the Marines were in the intensive care unit last night and 61 others were quarantined in a ward at the Naval Medical Center in San Diego to prevent the illness from spreading.