‘Something I’ve never felt since Covid. It was scarier’: the shock and pain of Kent’s meningitis outbreak

Coronavirus

How infections linked to a nightclub escalated into a public health incident requiring a national response is a puzzle experts are still grappling with Tyra Skinner had already been violently sick three times when doctors at Kent’s William Harvey hospital realised something was badly wrong. The 20-year-old was rushed into critical care, racked with a pounding headache, a stiff neck and excruciating pain – the hallmark symptoms of meningitis, the disease that had already claimed two young lives

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