A huge one-off vaccine programme will be rolled out to nearly a million young people to help protect them against meningitis B - this comes after an outbreak in Kent, in March, led to the deaths of two teenagers
A huge one-off vaccine programme will be rolled out to nearly a million young people to help protect them against meningitis B - this comes after an outbreak in Kent, in March, led to the deaths of two teenagers
'Life won’t be the same for many of us now that he’s gone.'
One student who attended Henley College in Oxfordshire tragically died
Parents and students at all affected schools have been informed about the symptoms.
Fresh meningitis cases have been confirmed in Reading with one person dead following a new outbreak - here is a full list of meningitis symptoms and warnings signs explained
One young person is dead after another meningitis outbreak in the UK (Picture: Google)
A student has died in a meningitis outbreak which has doctors contacting other young people who may be at risk.
Two others are seriously ill in hospital with fears they have meningitis B (MenB) – the same strain linked to a cluster of deaths of revellers at a Canterbury nightclub.
Close contacts have been…
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The latest suspected case, which is now being investigated, was reported to health authorities on Tuesday and involves a student at school in Yarm, North Yorkshire
Club Chemistry, which is in Canterbury, Kent, has announced it will open its doors on Thursday — 18 days after it shut amid a meningitis outbreak which killed at least two people
"She surpassed what they expected because they expected her to deteriorate quite fast. She remained strong."
He shared a sad update after 'turning a corner'.
Anthony Mills from Kidderminster lost his son Aaron, 18, to meningitis and is now campaigning for vaccination awareness among university students after the Liverpool John Moores student died on January 3
Lancet report found 159 Brits died with meningitis in a year while there were over 5,000 reported cases of the ‘devastating global disease’
Jack Bolam, 19, died from bacterial meningitis less than 48 hours after first complaining of feeling cold, with his devastated mum saying there were no warning signs
Meningitis can be a deadly infection if left untreated.
Keeleigh Goodwin was so sick she blacked out and fell unconscious on her bathroom floor
Keeleigh Goodwin was so sick she blacked out and fell unconscious on her bathroom floor
A case of bacterial meningitis in a Cork student has been confirmed
Wes Streeting, the Health Secretary, had praised the country's "Herculean efforts" to protect people following the meningitis outbreak, which killed two young people
Early symptoms of meningitis may be easy to dismiss or confuse
'As further laboratory assessments are being completed, we expect some further probable cases to be downgraded in the coming days.'
Jordan, expecting his first child with Sophie Kasaei, is under constant hospital care and seizure monitoring.
Off the back of a devastating meningitis outbreak, BBC Sport presenter Seema Jaswal has opened up on how the infection left her on the brink of death.
He shared the news on Instagram.
TOWIE star Jordan Brook has been hospitalised with viral meningitis and encephalitis
New cases linked to the Kent menB outbreak have been recorded.
Juliette Kenny's father revealed the symptoms his daughter faced just hours before she tragically died after contracting meningitis B, during an outbreak of the infection in Kent
A mutation in the killer meningitis B strain that makes it easier to spread could be behind the major outbreak, top scientists fear, as the number of cases rose to 29