STUDENTS have begun to receive a meningitis B vaccine following a deadly outbreak of the bug in Kent.About 5,000 students from the Canterbury campus of the University of Kent are being offered the jab, alongside courses of antibiotics.The vaccine rollout comes after two students died and 18 more cases were being investigated by the UKHSA following an outbreak of meningitis linked to a nightclub.

STUDENTS have begun to receive a meningitis B vaccine following a deadly outbreak of the bug in Kent.

About 5,000 students from the Canterbury campus of the University of Kent are being offered the jab, alongside courses of antibiotics.

The vaccine rollout comes after two students died and 18 more cases were being investigated by the UKHSA following an outbreak of meningitis linked to a nightclub.

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