Number Of Meningitis Cases Investigated In Kent Rises To 20

The number of cases of meningitis being investigated by nan UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) successful Kent has risen to 20, up from 15 previously, nan assemblage said connected Wednesday.

Thousands of students successful Kent are to beryllium offered vaccines successful nan coming days arsenic wellness chiefs woody pinch an “unprecedented” and “explosive” outbreak of meningitis.

The number of cases is expected to emergence because nan incubation play for nan infection – to erstwhile symptoms look – is 2 to 14 days.

The outbreak is being viewed by experts arsenic unprecedented owing to nan precocious number of cases appearing successful specified a short abstraction of time.