If you flew out of Orlando airport recently on AirTran, you may be getting a call from the airline. It seems that a teenage girl left Orlando and went to Atlanta on Flight 862, and then on to Wichita on 687. Sometime during the flights, the girl got sick on the plane, and she was met in Wichita by an ambulance. At the hospital, she was diagnosed with bacterial meningitis, and she’s in critical condition.

Due to the way that this disease is spread (close contact with discharges from the nose and throat of a sick person), AirTran officials are working to contact passengers from those 2 flights to alert them.

Bacterial meningitis is VERY serious if left untreated, and can result in death if not treated quickly enough. Symptoms include fever, severe headache, stiff neck, sensitivity to bright lights, confusion, drowsiness, nausea, and vomiting. If you were on the flight and note any of those symptoms, go directly to the emergency room and tell them that you may have been exposed to bacterial meningitis.