An Adelaide boy is in hospital with a potentially life-threatening case of meningococcal, just days after the state government announced free vaccines.
SA's health department has spoken with a metropolitan childcare centre and recommended 64 people get antibiotics after the two-year-old contracted the disease.
He remains in a serious condition in hospital and the strain of meningococcal it's not yet known, the department says.
Two dozen cases of invasive meningococcal have been recorded in South Adelaide so far this year compared to 31 cases in the same period the previous year.
It comes after the SA government's free meningococcal B vaccinations program for children aged between six months to under four years started on Monday.
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