Kent students to be offered targeted meningitis B jabs after two more cases

Staff and students queue to receive antibiotics at the University of Kent in Canterbury after the meningitis outbreak. Photograph: Carl Court/Getty Images

Students in Kent are to be offered a targeted vaccination against meningitis B after two more cases in the deadly outbreak were confirmed and pharmacies ran out of vaccine doses.

Government scientists have said two people who died in the outbreak had bacterial strain B of the disease, for which most people have not been vaccinated.