UK school leavers and new students to be offered meningitis B vaccine

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The UK government has announced a one-off vaccination program to offer teenagers and new university students two doses of the meningitis B vaccine starting in late July. This initiative follows recent outbreaks in Kent, Dorset, and Berkshire that resulted in three fatalities.

One-off programme to begin in July after recent MenB outbreaks in Kent, Dorset and Berkshire killed three people Teenagers in their final school year and young people starting university will be offered two doses of a vaccine to protect them against meningitis B, the government has announced. The one-off vaccination programme, which will begin in late July, comes after an unprecedented outbreak of meningitis B in Kent earlier this year along with clusters of cases in Dorset and Berkshire that, together, led to the deaths of three young people. Continue reading...