Curling champ has meningitis
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This article was published 11/12/2010 (5716 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
HALIFAX — Two-time world champion curler and television personality Colleen Jones is recovering in a Halifax hospital from a bout of bacterial meningitis.
Jones, 50, fell ill on Saturday and went to the hospital, where doctors promptly diagnosed her condition.
Jones, who is still in hospital, told the Halifax Chronicle Herald that doctors are now trying to figure out how she got the illness to prevent a recurrence.
She says her doctors have told her she may have developed a leak of cerebrospinal fluid that allowed the bacteria into her brain.
Bacterial meningitis can cause serious damage to the brain and can be fatal up to 15 per cent of the time. Jones was due to begin play today in the provincial women’s curling playdowns in Greenwood, N.S., in a bid for a 16th Nova Scotia women’s title, but now she doesn’t expect to curl again this season.
Her illness came to light on the day she was named to the Canada Games Hall of Honour.
— The Canadian Press
