(Nixa, MO) -- There's another confirmed case of bacterial meningitis in the Ozarks -- this time, in Christian County.

Health Department spokesman Kit Wager says one person died last week after being diagnosed with the disease. However, the department could not confirm the cause of death.

KOLR/KSFX spoke with the family of a man who has no doubt that meningitis killed his fiancé.

The local health department believes the situation is isolated, and all immediate contacts have been treated.

However, the family says they want to make people are aware of the disease, so no more families have to go to a funeral because of bacterial meningitis.

Paperwork obtained by KOLR shows local hospitals treated that area family for meningitis exposure.

The group attended the funeral for the Christian County woman Tuesday. She was about to marry into the family and her fiancé talked to us from his room in this hospital today.

He says doctors are holding him in isolation while they test him for meningitis. So far, there is no proof he has disease.

But Skaggs confirms, it would put a patient in isolation and hold them for several days in a case such as this.

So far the state health department says it doesn't know of any connection between the Christian and Wright County cases.

But we do now know the three cases in Wright county are limited to one family: a mother and two of her children were diagnosed with the disease.

Her two-year-old died from meningitis this weekend. The other child is a kindergartner.

The state says parents of that student's classmates have notifications and prescriptions for antibiotics, as a precaution.

Earlier Tuesday, KOLR/KSFX talked with an infections expert at Skaggs to give some context to the situation in the Ozarks.

"The bacterial is transmitted through the saliva through eating," says Skaggs Regional Medical Center Connie Meier. "Sharing utensils, through sharing drinks, that type of thing."

The Wright County Health Department says the cases seem contained right now.

And the State Department says a few cases are not unheard of. The state has about 24 meningitis cases every year.