{"id":541504,"date":"2026-04-20T18:48:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T18:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/541504\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T18:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T18:48:11","slug":"no-further-meningitis-cases-in-weymouth-after-three-infections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/541504\/","title":{"rendered":"No further meningitis cases in Weymouth after three infections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The precautionary medical measures are being offered in stages to all those in school years seven to 13 who study or live in the Weymouth, Portland and Chickerell areas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It said anyone attending Atlantic Academy, Kingston Maurward Academy and Coastland Academy would be invited for antibiotics and vaccination this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">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 from Tuesday afternoon at All Saints Academy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Young people aged under 16 should be accompanied by a parent or guardian who is able to provide consent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The UKHSA said all those have already taken the preventative antibiotic which gives the most effective short-term protection will also be offered a meningitis B (MenB) vaccination. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It said more information on the vaccination schedule would be provided in due course.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Dorset cases are the same sub-strain type, but a different sub-strain, to the one <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/ckgxpkz42w8o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">detected recently in Kent<\/a>, and are not linked.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">All three Weymouth students are said to be recovering well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The precautionary medical measures are being offered in stages to all those in school years seven to 13&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":541505,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[59,102,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-541504","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\/541504","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=541504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}