{"id":354687,"date":"2026-03-19T17:29:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T17:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/354687\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T17:29:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T17:29:23","slug":"no-indication-of-meningitis-outbreak-in-ireland-hse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/354687\/","title":{"rendered":"No Indication Of Meningitis Outbreak In Ireland &#8211; HSE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__timestamp\">\n                    Thursday, 19 March 2026 16:21\n                <\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/68ac74523f721.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            That&#8217;s despite an outbreak in the UK.\n        <\/p>\n<p>The HSE says there is no indication of an increase in meningococcal disease, in light of a major outbreak in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s only seeing expected background and seasonal levels.<\/p>\n<p>12 cases have been reported in Ireland in 2026 so far &#8211; last year saw 60 cases recorded.<\/p>\n<p>In Kent in England, 27 cases have been linked to an outbreak at a university and two people have died.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Ashfaq Ahmad, at Boston Medical in Portlaoise says it can be easily spread:<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thursday, 19 March 2026 16:21 That&#8217;s despite an outbreak in the UK. The HSE says there is no&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148677,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3279,319,61,60,2673,8285,1529,8284,8282,8283,43,8286,700,59],"class_list":["post-354687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-broadcast","tag-broadcasting","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-irish-news","tag-laois","tag-local-news","tag-local-radio","tag-midlands","tag-midlands-103","tag-news","tag-offaly","tag-radio","tag-westmeath"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}