{"id":495043,"date":"2026-03-25T19:52:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T19:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/495043\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T19:52:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T19:52:11","slug":"meningitis-memories-of-devastating-1980s-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/495043\/","title":{"rendered":"Meningitis: Memories of &#8216;devastating&#8217; 1980s outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But, as young people race to get vaccines, how effective are they in the case of an ongoing outbreak?<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">According to Finn, it is &#8220;quite a complicated story&#8221;, as the vaccine is &#8220;almost an irrelevance in the very short term&#8221;, although it is effective overall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;What will bring the outbreak under control is that people will modify their behaviour because they&#8217;re concerned about transmission,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They won&#8217;t be going to nightclubs, sharing vapes or being in close and intimate contact, for sure. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;And, combined with that, the antibiotics that have been given out, I think now, to several thousand young individuals will protect them from getting sick and will also greatly reduce the chances if they&#8217;re carrying the bug of transmitting it onto other people.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"But, as young people race to get vaccines, how effective are they in the case of an ongoing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":495044,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[59,102,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-495043","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495043","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=495043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}