US Edition'Happened so fast': UK students panicked by meningitis outbreak
The UK Health Security Agency confirmed 20 cases linked to a Canterbury nightclub, with antibiotics and meningitis B vaccines offered to contacts and university students.
- 1- Jack Jordan described the outbreak at University of Kent as alarming, noting how quickly the first case emerged. 2- By the weekend, the outbreak had turned deadly, with one university student and a schoolgirl killed, and several others hospitalized after cases linked to a local nightclub. 3- In response, at least 200 students queued on campus in Canterbury as authorities launched a targeted vaccination campaign against Meningitis B.
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Radio France Internationale
'Happened so fast': UK students panicked by meningitis outbreak
Hundreds of masked-up students queued Wednesday to get vaccinated at the UK university campus at the heart of a deadly meningitis outbreak, as the number of cases rose to 20.
UK students 'panicked' by sudden meningitis outbreak
Hundreds of masked-up students queued up on Wednesday to get vaccinated at the UK university campus at the heart of a deadly meningitis outbreak, as the number of cases rose to 20. "It's quite a concerning thing. It all happened so fast," said Jack Jordan, a 19-year-old student at the University of Kent in southeast England, where the first case was reported on Friday. By the weekend, one university student and one schoolgirl had died of the inf…
The UK Meningitis outbreak at the University of Kent is extremely unusual and not easily explained. Described as "unprecedented" and "explosive"
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