NHS Kent and Medway has said appointments will be available across multiple clinics and hubs, with more information on how to book due to be published from Monday.<\/p>\n
According to the NHS, the vaccine protects against most types of meningococcal group B bacteria in the UK.<\/p>\n
A second dose must be given at least four weeks after the first, but can be given later.<\/p>\n
Health Secretary Wes Streeting described the outbreak at the time as “unprecedented” due to the number of people who became infected in a short time frame.<\/p>\n
A 21-year-old university student, whose name was not made public, and sixth form pupil Juliette Kenny both died after contracting the infection – many others received in-patient hospital care.<\/p>\n
The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) declared a national incident in a bid to help with the rollout of national resources, such as the supply of antibiotics.<\/p>\n
A targeted vaccination programme was offered initially to students in university halls in Kent before being expanded to those who attended local nightclub Club Chemistry where the outbreak is thought to have originated. <\/p>\n
Other groups also later became eligible for the programme, including certain sixth form students attending a school or college where there had been a confirmed or probable case.<\/p>\n
Preventative antibiotics were offered to a wider cohort, with queues of people photographed across several days at the University of Kent waiting to receive the treatment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NHS Kent and Medway has said appointments will be available across multiple clinics and hubs, with more information…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[134,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-374371","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}