{"id":357373,"date":"2026-03-21T06:45:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T06:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/357373\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T06:45:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T06:45:10","slug":"meningitis-strain-in-kent-outbreak-has-led-to-12-deaths-in-ireland-in-past-five-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/357373\/","title":{"rendered":"Meningitis strain in Kent outbreak has led to 12 deaths in Ireland in past five years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A Kent student is given a meningitis B vaccination yesterday. Photo: Reuters\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/691c01d5-d641-4cc1-9796-14cd13c7fe5f.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">A Kent student is given a meningitis B vaccination yesterday. Photo: Reuters<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Twelve people in Ireland have died over the last five years from the dangerous strain of meningitis found in several of those infected in the outbreak of the disease in Kent, England.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The 12 deaths from meningitis B, which occurred between 2021 and last year, highlight how lethal the infection can be if not treated early.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Kent student is given a meningitis B vaccination yesterday. Photo: Reuters Twelve people in Ireland have died&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357374,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[6130,4593,103,61,60,6133],"class_list":["post-357373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-claire-byrne","tag-eilish-oregan","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-newstalk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357373","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=357373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}