Health agency names two schools affected by Berkshire meningitis outbreak

NHS workers on the University of Kent campus following an outbreak of meningitis there in March. Photograph: Chris J Ratcliffe/Reuters

Two schools attended by pupils receiving treatment for meningitis have been named amid an outbreak of the infection in Berkshire which has caused the death of a student.

The patients attend Reading Blue Coat school and Highdown secondary school and sixth form centre, according to the UK Health Security Agency. Their close contacts have been offered antibiotics as a precaution.