'Unusual' meningitis outbreak that has killed two Kent students could be caused by new strain, experts fear as hundreds queue for antibiotics

The victims, aged from 17 to 21, were a student at the University of Kent in Canterbury and a sixth-former at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School in nearby Faversham.


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