Two boys, aged respectively six months and six years, have died of viral meningitis in a hospital in the city of Plovdiv, adding to the recent increase in the disease death toll.
The boys were from the village of Gurkovo and town of Stara Zagora. The Gurkovo victim of the deadly infection was six-months old. It was rushed to Plovdiv's hospital on Friday in critical situation.
The boy from Stara Zagora was six years old and he lived at a place too distant from the residence of the baby victim to consider any link between the two cases, doctors said.
Last week the lethal disease claimed the life a seventeen-year-old student in Sofia's Mathematics High School.
Meningitis is usually caused by a viral or bacterial infection. Viral meningitis is generally less severe and resolves without specific treatment, while bacterial meningitis can be quite severe and may result in brain damage, hearing loss, or learning disability.