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'Unprecedented' Meningitis Outbreak in UK Spreads to 27 Cases - ScienceAlert
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UK health authorities are investigating 27 linked meningitis cases in southeast England believed to have spread at a nightclub; the cluster caused multiple hospitalizations and deaths among students, prompting urgent treatment, contact tracing and an expanded vaccination and preventative-treatment campaign. The widened programme now includes sixth-form students and others identified as close contacts, producing long queues at clinics and reports of people being turned away. This meningitis cluster is one of several contemporaneous infectious-disease incidents — alongside a large Ebola outbreak in eastern DR Congo — highlighting heightened public-health vigilance and resource pressures in different regions.
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