(Nixa, MO) -- The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services confirms more cases of meningitis in the Ozarks.

Health Department spokesman Kit Wager says the latest case reported is in Christian County, where a woman was first admitted to an area hospital last Wednesday.

People close to the woman say she died Thursday.  Wager did not confirm her death.  The woman's fiance says he has been tested and found to be negative, however Skaggs Hospital in Branson is holding him in isolation for further testing.

In Wright County, the state now confirms a total of three cases of bacterial meningitis, all in the same family. Wager says the mother is in an area hospital and two of her four children were diagnosed with the disease. 

One of those children, a 2-year old, died over the weekend.  The other child is a kindergartner in the Mansfield school district.  The state was parents of children in that kindergarten class have been notified and given prescriptions for antibiotics, as a precaution. 

The woman's two other children have not tested positive for meningitis.