Another death from meningitis

Southampton - All 14,000 students at Southampton University have either been given, or are being offered, vaccination and antibiotics…

Southampton - All 14,000 students at Southampton University have either been given, or are being offered, vaccination and antibiotics following the third death of a woman student from meningitis. In what is the worst outbreak at a British university in terms of the number of people who have died, staff at the university are also being offered tablets and immunisation.

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