Meningitis in Kent fatal outbreak identified as less targeted strain B
UKHSA says strain involved in outbreak that has killed two people is one that most people are not vaccinated againstGovernment scientists have identified the type of meningitis behind a fatal outbreak in Kent as a strain that most people have not be vaccinated against.Gayatri Amirthalingam, the...
<p>UKHSA says strain involved in outbreak that has killed two people is one that most people are not vaccinated against</p><p>Government scientists have identified the type of meningitis behind a fatal outbreak in Kent as a strain that most people have not be vaccinated against.</p><p>Gayatri Amirthalingam, the deputy director of the immunisation and vaccine preventable diseases at the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), said tests showed it was strain B of the virus.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/mar/17/strain-b-meningitis-kent-fatal-outbreak">Continue reading...</a>
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