Canterbury, United Kingdom, March 18, 2026 (AFP) - 'Happened so fast': UK students panicked by meningitis outbreak

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2026-03-18

Hundreds of masked-up students queued Wednesday to get vaccinated at the UK university campus at the heart of a deadly meningitis outbreak, as the number of cases rose to 20. "It's quite a concerning thing. It all happened so fast," said Jack Jordan, a 19-year-old student at the University of Kent in southeast England, where the first case was reported on Friday. By the weekend, one university student and one schoolgirl had died of the infection,......

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