‘Household’ clusters of meningitis linked to Kent outbreak could appear across UK over next month as students return home for Easter, experts warn

Sporadic household clusters of meningitis could appear over the next month in other parts of Britain as university students travel home from Kent for the Easter holidays.

Kent County Council’s director of public health Dr Anjan Ghosh told a briefing in Canterbury today that three scenarios are being looked at over the next four weeks.

The most likely is that students who have travelled away from Kent will ‘incubate’ the bug and there could be

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