{"id":544573,"date":"2026-03-25T15:24:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T15:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/544573\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T15:24:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T15:24:06","slug":"5-things-to-know-about-bacterial-meningitis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/544573\/","title":{"rendered":"5 things to know about bacterial meningitis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"VYGZ6KZFPJBUJJMINI7ITZYUGU\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Two young adults, an 18-year-old and 21-year-old, recently died, and 18 others were hospitalized, in an<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2026\/03\/18\/britain-meningitis-outbreak-students-kent\/f35f944a-22cc-11f1-954a-6300919c9854_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> outbreak of meningitis<\/a> in Kent, England.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"GOEA3AJRRZHNXOFCUHX7CME7OQ\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">People in their teens and early 20s are considered to be at greater risk for this type of rare but serious bacterial infection called meningococcal group B  that can lead to meningitis, an inflammation in the membranes that cover the spinal cord and brain. The outbreak seems to have occurred in people, including students from two universities, who attended a nightclub in early March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two young adults, an 18-year-old and 21-year-old, recently died, and 18 others were hospitalized, in an outbreak of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":544574,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[97],"class_list":{"0":"post-544573","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-health"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}