AURORA | Arapahoe County Public Health has finished contact tracing following the suspected meningitis death of an Eaglecrest High School teacher and have not identified any other cases.
Eaglecrest teacher Maddie Schmidt, 24, and paraprofessional Judith Geoffroy, 63, died the weekend of April 8. After a lab test confirmed last week that Schmidt had viral meningitis when she died, class was canceled at Eaglecrest for a day and the public health department began reaching out to Schmidt’s close contacts.
Arapahoe County spokesperson Anders Nelson confirmed Monday that contact tracing had since concluded. The Arapahoe County Coroner’s Office has conducted autopsies on both women but their official cause of death is pending test results that Nelson said should be complete in about a week.
The Integrated Learning Center program at Eaglecrest, where both worked, was closed through the end of last week but resumed normal operations Monday.
Viral meningitis? Previous stories have said Bacterial meningitis. (As does the Arapahoe board of health meeting agenda)
there’s a big difference. One is vaccine preventable.