State Health officials confirmed today that a 4-year-old boy died from a rare strain of meningococcemia, the same bacterial infection that causes meningitis. Edward Fink died yesterday morning, about two and a half hours after he was taken to the emergency room at Long Prairie Memorial Hospital. Health officials haven't determined how he was infected. But they have distributed antibiotics to about 35 people, including the hospital personnel who treated the boy and kids at his day care. Dr. Paul Van Gorp is the first doctor who saw Edward Fink when he arrived at the hospital. He says he administered antibiotics immediately.