{"id":779666,"date":"2026-09-23T05:56:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T05:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/779666\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T05:56:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T05:56:13","slug":"reading-university-freshers-receive-meningitis-b-jabs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/779666\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading University freshers receive meningitis B jabs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hugo Templeton, an 18-year-old computer science student, said: &#8220;I came here today because a girl at my school &#8211; Burford School &#8211; got meningitis, and she&#8217;s OK, but that caused a bit of a craze around the school and the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Everyone started getting their jabs&#8230; so I wanted to get mine as soon as I could and because it&#8217;s so accessible here I just thought this would be the best place to start.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Connor Dalton,18, studying physical geography, said: &#8220;I&#8217;ve just come here to make sure that I&#8217;m protected, and that my time at uni is safe, and I can enjoy myself.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added: &#8220;It&#8217;s a very scary thought to have to think about knowing that you can come to uni, pick up this disease, and potentially die from it&#8230; so getting the jab has just put me in a much safer place really.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hawa Diallo, a first-year biomedical science student, said: &#8220;I actually found out about it because someone that I was sat next to told me&#8230; I decided on the spur of the moment to come along.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She added: &#8220;I just figured, you know, I&#8217;m in a new space with lots of people, it wouldn&#8217;t hurt to have extra protection.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hugo Templeton, an 18-year-old computer science student, said: &#8220;I came here today because a girl at my school&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":779667,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[59,102,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-779666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-gb","tag-health","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779666","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=779666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/779667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=779666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=779666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}