NANJING, Feb. 3(Xinhuanet)-- When Wu Hao, a junior high student,left the hospital Wednesday, he is the second person of six to recover from the meningitis outbreak in Dongtai, a city of east China's Jiangsu Province.

The other four are in stable conditions and will recover in thenext few days, said He Qing, director of the local hospital where the six were treated.

From Jan. 21 to 26, there are six kids in a junior high school in Tangyang, 50 km from Dongtai, came down with symptoms such as fever, vomiting and neck anchylosis.

After being confirmed as epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis, thesix students were quarantined and got efficient treatment from doctors and experts sent from Dongtai.

The school was disinfected and all students and teachers were vaccinated.

Wang Zhongze, deputy director of the Dongtai disease preventionand control center, said that thanks to the effective prevention measures, by Wednesday a week had passed with no new cases reported.

Meanwhile, in Wuhu city of east China's Anhui Province, where seven cases were reported, no more cases have been reported for 10straight days. All the patients have been cured with the last one leaving the hospital Wednesday.

According to Yang Xiaoxiang, director of the city disease prevention and control center, so far more than 130,000 locals have been inoculated.

Sources from the Anhui Provincial Health Department said Thursday that the meningitis outbreak in the province has been brought under control as two of the infected were cured and the five others are in stable condition.

From Dec. 20, 2004 to Feb. 2 this year, 62 meningitis cases were spotted in Anhui. Six people died, 51 were cured and five others are still under treatment.

Meningitis is an acute infectious disease most often caused by a bacterial or viral infection of the membranes around the brain and spinal cord. It is marked by fever, vomiting and intense headache.

Official sources indicated that the meningitis epidemic caused by the group C bacteria was first reported in September 2003 at Qingyang County in eastern Anhui Province. Previous outbursts wereusually caused by group A bacteria.

Teenagers aged from 13 to 18 are the major group affected by the epidemic. Seventy-seven percent of the epidemic victims in Anhui Province are elementary or middle school children.

Epidemic meningitis outbreaks are common in Anhui Province. Often occurring in spring and winter, the disease can be cured andbrought under effective control and prevention, said Gao Kaiyan, director of the Provincial Health Department.

According Gao, compared with the common figure of 100 to 200 cases every year, the 62 meningitis cases confirmed so far is not abnormal.