{"id":536330,"date":"2026-04-17T17:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T17:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/536330\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T17:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T17:30:08","slug":"second-vaccine-offered-after-fatal-meningitis-b-outbreak-in-kent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/536330\/","title":{"rendered":"Second vaccine offered after fatal meningitis B outbreak in Kent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The NHS is to offer a second dose of the vaccine against meningitis B following a fatal outbreak in Kent during March.   <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The incident saw 20 confirmed cases in total and claimed the lives of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c5y9jjdqy6lo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sixth-form pupil Juliette Kenny, 18<\/a>, and a 21-year-old student from the University of Kent, who has not been named.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">All of those who contracted the disease needed hospital treatment, with nine ending up in intensive care.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Clinics opened in Canterbury, Ashford, Faversham and Margate on Friday after an initial round of jabs last month saw <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/live\/cpdy64wp936t\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">huge queues of students form, with some having to be turned away due to high demand<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NHS is to offer a second dose of the vaccine against meningitis B following a fatal outbreak&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":515766,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[59,102,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-536330","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\/536330","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=536330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/515766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}