Meningitis in fatal Kent outbreak identified as less-targeted strain B

UKHSA says strain involved in outbreak that has killed two people is one that most people are not vaccinated against

Government scientists have identified the type of meningitis behind a fatal outbreak in Kent as a strain that most people have not be vaccinated against.

Gayatri Amirthalingam, the deputy director of the immunisation and vaccine preventable diseases at the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), said tests showed it was the bacterial strain B of the disease.