HURON, Ohio — Test results revealed Saturday that a 9-year-old elementary school student has viral meningitis, a less severe form of the disease that killed another student.

        Hannah Edwards, a 7-year-old first-grader at Woodlands Elementary School in this northern Ohio community, died of bacterial meningitis Monday. Three days later, the 9-year-old Woodlands student and two other children were admitted to Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital in Cleveland with flu-like conditions.

        Health officials administered hundreds of doses of antibiotics to Woodlands staff and students Thursday and Friday as a precaution. They also gave the preventive antibiotics to those who came in contact with Hannah. The school will not hold classes Monday.

        Hospital spokeswoman Eileen Korey said it was “purely coincidence” that the two girls attended the same school and had a form of meningitis.

        The 9-year-old girl was in good condition and expected to be released today, she said. The two other children hospitalized tested negative for meningitis and were released Saturday, Ms. Korey said.

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