NHS trust 'failed to raise alarm over Kent meningitis outbreak at earliest opportunity' and only told government when infections were at their peak ⊕
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20 days ago
The Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Hospital in Margate first reported a case to the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) on the afternoon of Friday, March 13.
21 days ago
Meningitis outbreak WAS caused by a new variant with significant mutations that are likely to have impacted on how fast it spread, officials say ⊕
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The UK Health Security Agency has mapped the entire genome of the circulating bacteria and found mutations in an area known to affect transmissibility.
23 days ago
Meningitis cases fall as health officials reveal some people were wrongly told they had the disease ⊕
Previously 'confirmed' cases have decreased from 23 to 20 after they were downgraded following further testing, the UK Health Security Agency said.
25 days ago
Meningitis cases rise again to 29 in Kent outbreak as students queue for vaccine and family of schoolgirl, 18, who died call for all youngsters to have access to jab ○
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The UK Health Security Agency said this morning that 18 meningitis cases linked to the Kent outbreak had now been confirmed and a further 11 were under investigation - giving a total of 29.
26 days ago
Number of meningitis cases linked to Kent outbreak rises to 27 ⊕
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Hundreds of students at University of Kent take up offer of meningitis B vaccination amid ‘very unusual outbreak’
The number of cases of meningitis linked to an outbreak in Kent has risen to 27, up f…
Meningitis cases rise to 27 after outbreak spread to second university and vaccines are rolled out to students in Kent ⊕
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The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) announced the number of cases had increased by seven to 27 in its latest update today - up from yesterday's total of 20, and Tuesday's of 15.
27 days ago
'Lock us down now!' Kent students launch drive to reintroduce Covid-era restrictions as meningitis outbreak spreads ○
Students at the University of Kent are demanding the campus be shut down immediately after the UK Health Security Agency declared the meningitis outbreak a 'national incident'.
Meningitis outbreak spreads to SECOND university in Kent as rollout of vaccine to 5,000 students begins in Canterbury ⊕
Canterbury Christ Church University revealed this afternoon that the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) had confirmed a case of meningitis in one of its students.
Number of meningitis cases investigated in Kent rises to 20 ⊕
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Figure up from 15, as thousands of students to be offered vaccines in response to quickest-growing outbreak experts have seen
The number of meningitis infections linked to Kent continues to grow, with…
Number of meningitis cases rises to 20 as Kent outbreak grows by a third in just one day - and private vaccine supplies RUN OUT ⊕
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The number of cases of meningitis being investigated by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) in Kent has risen to 20, up from 15 previously, the health agency said this morning.