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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Kevin Rawlinson

One dead and two more ill after meningitis outbreak in Berkshire

A magnified image of meningococcus bacterium.
Meningococcus bacterium. Health officials did not specify how the cases in Berkshire were linked. Photograph: Sebastian Kaulitzki/Alamy

A young person has died and two others are being treated after an outbreak of meningitis in Berkshire, health officials have said.

It follows a major outbreak in Kent, linked to a Canterbury nightclub, that killed two people and left more than a dozen needing hospital treatment in March.

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