A college pupil and a college pupil have died in Kent and 11 different individuals are significantly ailing following a meningitis outbreak.
Meningitis can kill an individual in lower than 24 hours if it isn’t handled shortly. But outbreaks like this have been uncommon lately. Vaccination programmes have helped however anybody over the age of 10 won’t have been supplied a vaccination towards MenB by the NHS. However, it has been obtainable to infants since 2015.
Niall speaks to Dr Tom Nutt from Meningitis Now and Sky’s science correspondent Thomas Moore about why meningitis might be lethal, what the signs are, and why the vaccine will not be free for youngsters.
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