Meningitis Outbreak Exposes UK's Decade-Long Gap in Protection

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Two young people are dead and 20 are receiving treatment after a meningitis outbreak at the University of Kent. The students caught up in it belong to a generation that has never been routinely vaccinated against the strain responsible. That is not because a vaccine doesn't exist. It does. Bexsero, which protects against meningococcal group B disease (the strain responsible for the Kent outbreak), has been available since 2013 . The UK even became the first country in the world to add it to its

Meningitis Outbreak Exposes UK's Decade-Long Gap in Protection https://www.sciencealert.com - 19.03.2026 13:45

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Meningitis Outbreak Exposes UK's Decade-Long Gap in Protection https://www.sciencealert.com - 19.03.2026 13:45