[arista]

Sky News Text :
[Two young people are dead, and 11 are seriously ill
after a meningitis outbreak in Canterbury,
says the Daily Mail.

It reports the outbreak is believed to be linked to
a social event in the Kent city.]

[MTVN]

I don't think I've ever heard of a meningitis 'outbreak', just the occasional isolated case. I had no idea it could even actually spread person to person, and certainly not just at a 'social event'

[arista]

Yes, a rare meningitis

[Rare and dangerous forms of meningitis include
Fungal meningitis, Tuberculous (TB) meningitis,
Group A streptococcal (GAS) meningitis,
and certain rare strains of Invasive Meningococcal Disease.
These infections are generally severe,
requiring rapid medical intervention,
and some are increasing.]

Was it brought in by a Migrant ?

[arista]

The Head of School
gave respect to the young lady who died from this.

She said
her lovely Smile and positive attitude
will be missed.


It spreads fast on kissing

[Glenn.]

Universities are full of thousands of students living and partying together. That’s how meningitis spreads. It’s been happening for decades. Not everything is migrants, as easy and lazy as it is to blame them for everything.

[Crimson Dynamo]

The Telegraph understands health officials had been alerted to cases two days earlier,
prompting questions about why public alerts were delayed. Meningitis typically has an
incubation period of three to five days.

[arista]

[Students queue at the University of Kent
in Canterbury today amid the meningitis outbreak]


All the Students are waiting in a line,
to receive their Anti-biotic

[bots]

My cousin got meningitis many, many years ago. She was very ill but pulled through. It can be infectious.

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by MTVN

I don't think I've ever heard of a meningitis 'outbreak', just the occasional isolated case. I had no idea it could even actually spread person to person, and certainly not just at a 'social event'

Yeah apparently they have determined it was a nightclub, I thought there was a vaccination you could have, I recall my two having a vac before Uni

[arista]

Originally Posted by arista

The Head of School
gave respect to the young lady who died from this.

She said
her lovely Smile and positive attitude
will be missed.

A Medical Doctor Stated today:
It spreads fast on kissing

[Headmistress Amelia Milroy
of Queen Elizabeth Grammar School
in Faversham makes a statement today
about her student Juliette who died
from meningitis in the outbreak in Kent]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-birthday.html

[MTVN]

Originally Posted by Cherie

Yeah apparently they have determined it was a nightclub, I thought there was a vaccination you could have, I recall my two having a vac before Uni

I think I read something saying the vaccine take-up is about 75%. I remember there was a big drive in my school to get everyone vaccinated because one of the pupils in my year died from it. He had just felt unwell one evening with a bit of a headache and had died a day or two later. Scary stuff

[arista]

[arista]

[arista]

Poor Juliette

[arista]

Sky News Text:
[The mother of a teenager who was treated in hospital
for meningitis claims she caught the disease after sharing
a vape while out clubbing, reports The Sun.]

[Redway]

Originally Posted by Glenn.

Universities are full of thousands of students living and partying together. That’s how meningitis spreads. It’s been happening for decades. Not everything is migrants, as easy and lazy as it is to blame them for everything.

Firmly agreed. Bringing immigration into something as randomly unrelated as this is an enormous stretch, I can’t lie. Whoever it comes from. Below the belt.

[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by arista

The Head of School
gave respect to the young lady who died from this.

She said
her lovely Smile and positive attitude
will be missed.


It spreads fast on kissing

Well I thankfully don't kiss people.

But seriously, I hope that this problem doesn't become an Epidemic.

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Glenn.

Universities are full of thousands of students living and partying together. That’s how meningitis spreads. It’s been happening for decades. Not everything is migrants, as easy and lazy as it is to blame them for everything.

….yeah as you say, it’s a health threat that I can recall being present for decades …there were a few cases one time at our local community college many years ago and one resulted in permanent life changing health damage for one student, which is also not uncommon to happen…although there are vaccinations, they sadly don't protect against all strains of bacterial…(…contagious forms…)…of meningitis… incredibly sad for the two deaths in Canterbury atm…as if the world wasn’t threatening enough right now and meningitis enters the arena…just horrendous…

[Ammi]

….from a BBC news article…

Meningitis B, known as MenB, is the strain behind outbreak of cases in Kent, the UK Health Security Agency tells the BBC

Routine vaccination against MenB for babies and young children was rolled out from 2015 - so the current generation of students and others in their late teens have not been covered, our health editor writes

Why is the MenB vaccine not given to teenagers in the UK?

It comes after the family of a teenager who died in the outbreak said they were "beyond devastated" and have "no words to express their loss"

Juliette, an 18-year-old A-level student, is remembered as "genuinely caring" by her school's headteacher - separately, a 21-year-old student who has not been identified has also died

Three schools and the University of Kent have confirmed cases as thousands of people are contacted in the Canterbury area over the outbreak

The University of Kent says there will be no in-person exams and assessments this week, with the student union also cancelling all events

High temperature, vomiting, confusion - what are the symptoms of meningitis?


…full article…

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/ce8n9vd5r09t

[Zizu]

Tv doctor just warning that it’s spreading through , close contact , kissing and sharing vapes

[Crimson Dynamo]

[arista]

PM Starmer should offer the Vaccine/Meds Free

The Students have to buy it.
This is why it stopped being taken up

[arista]

The Health Secretary now live in
Parliament is talking about the new outbreak

On all TV News

[arista]

The Health Secretary
said the Antibiotics
you must take the full course.

That will halt it

[Vicky.]

Didn't know it was contagious..