{"id":539767,"date":"2026-04-19T17:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T17:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/539767\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T17:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T17:59:08","slug":"weymouth-students-and-parents-welcome-menb-jab-and-antibiotics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/539767\/","title":{"rendered":"Weymouth students and parents welcome MenB jab and antibiotics"},"content":{"rendered":"

To manage the expected high number of vehicles heading to Budmouth Academy over the weekend temporary traffic routes<\/a> have been put in place, with drivers being diverted via an industrial estate.<\/p>\n

The precautionary medical measures will be offered in stages over the coming days to all those in school years 7 to 13 who study or live in the Weymouth, Portland and Chickerell areas.<\/p>\n

Anyone not in full-time education who would be in one of those year groups will also be able to have a single dose of antibiotics and the vaccine.<\/p>\n

Young people aged under 16 attending the clinic should be accompanied by a parent or guardian who is able to provide consent.<\/p>\n

The UKHSA said all those have already taken the preventative antibiotic which gives provided the most effective short-term protection will also be offered a MenB vaccination. <\/p>\n

It said more information on the vaccination schedule would be provided in due course.<\/p>\n

Information about the signs and symptoms of meningitis have been shared with students and parents.<\/p>\n

The Dorset cases have been confirmed as meningitis B (MenB) and are the same sub-strain type, but a different sub-strain, to the one detected recently in Kent<\/a>. <\/p>\n

They are not linked to the deadly Kent outbreak<\/a>, the health agency said.<\/p>\n

All three Weymouth students<\/a> are said to be recovering well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To manage the expected high number of vehicles heading to Budmouth Academy over the weekend temporary traffic routes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":539768,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[59,102,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-539767","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\/539767","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=539767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}