Kent students to be offered targeted meningitis B jabs after two more cases

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Vaccination programme to be launched on Canterbury campus as strain B of disease identified in fatal outbreak

Students in Kent are to be offered a targeted vaccination against meningitis B after two more cases in the deadly outbreak were confirmed and pharmacies ran out of vaccine doses.

Government scientists have said two people who died in the outbreak had bacterial strain B of the disease, for which most people have not been vaccinated.

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