A 17-year-old student at the Massapequa High School who was diagnosed with Meningococcal Meningitis died Thursday, the Nassau County Department of Health said in statement.

The teen, Mike Gruber, was a senior at the mentioned high school, playing on the St. Rose of Lima CYO basketball league and had a job at a local King Kullen Supermarket in Massapequa Park.

After taking a Regents exam at the school on Wednesday, the teen went to bed that night with flu-like symptoms. The next morning he was taken to New Island Hospital, where he died early Thursday afternoon, his relatives and the health department said, according to the New York Times.

Health officials suggested people who have shared food or drink with the infected teen should call their doctors for a preventive antibiotic treatment. They also said persons who worked or shopped in the grocery store or who had casual contact in a classroom do not need preventive treatment.

Maintenance staff will clean the high school and other facilities the student may have frequented, Charles V. Sulc, acting Massapequa superintendent said in a statement. No other cases of the infection have been reported in the districts.

Meningococcal disease is a bacterial infection of the bloodstream or meninges, a think lining covering the brain and spinal cord, caused by the meningococcus germ. Symptoms of the disease often include high fever, headaches, vomiting, stiff neck and rash. The symptoms appear most often within 10 days of exposure. Anyone who has any of the mentioned symptoms should consult their health care providers immediately, the Nassau County Health Department said.

Between 1,400 and 2,800 people in the Unites States are struck by the disease each year. Up to 14 percent of these people die and up to one in five survivors suffer brain damage, amputation and/or hearing loss.

The most exposed to this disease are infants younger than one year, but disease incidence peaks again during the teen years.