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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Health
Dan Haygarth

Covid masks and an eerily silent campus: Inside Kent’s ‘worrying’ meningitis B outbreak

As students form a queue outside the University of Kent’s Senate building, an eerie silence fills the campus.

After two people – a student at the university in Canterbury and a year 13 pupil called Juliette from Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar School in Faversham – died and 13 more were hospitalised following an outbreak of meningitis in Kent, precautionary antibiotics are being handed out for a second day.

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