Student dies in UK meningitis outbreak as contacts offered antibiotics

It is understood that the most recent case in Berkshire is not the same strain of MenB linked to the outbreaks in Kent in March.

People queuing to receive vaccines and antibiotics at the University of Kent campus in Canterbury in March (Gareth Fuller/PA)

Close contacts of people linked to a meningitis outbreak in Reading, in which a student died, are being offered antibiotics as a precaution.

Two other young people are being treated after at least one case was confirmed as meningitis B (MenB), which was linked to a cluster of fatal cases in Kent earlier this year.