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Tom Place

Vaccine rollout begins as meningitis cases rise to 20 amid outbreak

Students have begun to receive a meningitis B vaccine as the “unprecedented” outbreak spreads to a second university.

The rollout of the vaccine to about 5,000 students in halls at the University of Kent began on Wednesday, following an outbreak thought to have originated at a nightclub in Canterbury.

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