{"id":481371,"date":"2026-03-18T02:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T02:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/481371\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T02:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T02:03:08","slug":"baby-critically-ill-as-unprecedented-meningitis-outbreak-spreads-london-evening-standard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/481371\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby critically ill as &#039;unprecedented&#039; meningitis outbreak spreads &#8211; London Evening Standard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMitAFBVV95cUxPM3ZPVGYtcndCSWo4QjhKbHZEbmZ5UW5ISk5qV0hjdmoyOFIyRzNUOEVHRjlHZ1EtNEZYNlhiUExBQ3JDVzZoWEN0QjJEZy1fWnJuLU9EeDhoMnlUWlRiQVkxUUxUcjRtQnBaLWg1OHNJbEVValVzSnNyM3lZYnAtNkpIcHNVd1Y4X0U5dnNiSVJGZ1duY3B4elVxYXA0OG1RVlFUakVQNGdVUUFBa0E0cDdUbjk?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Baby critically ill as &#8216;unprecedented&#8217; meningitis outbreak spreads<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;London Evening Standard<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiV0FVX3lxTE5ka2VibURVU0t5MG96RHFuQ0hnVVlBWHROQUxoQTcxemJldmVXdFNMeXlzZ1d3ZVZDa3puTXZzMURFRVU4YU1iUU9pRXlpNWVBQ0I0eFBwMA?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Students in Kent university halls to be offered meningitis vaccine as Streeting calls outbreak &#8216;unprecedented&#8217;<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;BBC<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMi1wFBVV95cUxOdFlMWDBaRTZNZ01ieWF0S01ya0tVVjQxdUhSRjRmZnM4Y0s2TW9QUkwwblk1R1k4ZDZYcjJLc0ZFcVdFT2ZYR1ZWa1JPVkYzQ0tILWdOQ055ajhPQVh4YXFQamRpbGROcVFsUnBBc3NlSUlxSnVZYWMxRnBROGxScTYyR0lkTFpmME5PdWFCNS15Mm5XY1liemJfOWNJcDNjaUUzVzFQU05Sb3VVTkJwSlY4XzRBSHctcG90Q1FTUm5ybW5XZ1hmYUFEOG9jQUNacnpwVUk3NA?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Meningitis outbreak being treated as national incident &#8211; as health secretary warns spread is &#8216;unprecedented&#8217;<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Sky News<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMilwFBVV95cUxORFlZb0tsTTBBNnhmRUJEN0VOWFk3SjNFRlAwVkNtNXI3QndpQVp2NE1KSnBCT0pLdGNHNE9xeS1WblRNNkdLX1dtV19WUnIxLVFLWGRmbUgta21LOGRtcEF3YS05V0w4UHd6US1vb0c3cDQ5S1liVzdlRWR5SHBwX0RNOE9LWGlWenFEUkpOMVo1XzZFN19r?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Cases of invasive meningococcal disease notified in Kent<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;GOV.UK<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiWkFVX3lxTFBKdEFuVUF2SS15VlEtY0o4cDlqX0F4VWs2UVB4YWpDN2tEWWdQdlA0cXBxdjM3bXhSa2N1WEpWcklwY2VtOHNXbW9GMFdFNDdFbUJFOTBkOVRKdw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Why is MenB vaccine not given to teenagers in UK and should they be offered it?<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Baby critically ill as &#8216;unprecedented&#8217; meningitis outbreak spreads&nbsp;&nbsp;London Evening StandardStudents in Kent university halls to be offered meningitis&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":481372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[980,59,102,191,19116,56,54,55,7747],"class_list":["post-481371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-canterbury","tag-gb","tag-health","tag-kent","tag-meningitis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wes-streeting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}