Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The government has announced a 'targeted' vaccine rollout for students in Kent, as ITV News' Health Correspondent Rebecca Barry ...

Meningitis B has been identified as the strain behind a fatal outbreak in Kent - a type of the disease that most have not been vaccinated against. The UK Health Security Agency confirmed the strain, ...

Meningitis B has been confirmed as the strain identified in some of the cases in Kent, following the tragic deaths of a school pupil and a university student amidst a growing outbreak. Concerns are ...

Health officials in the United Kingdom are investigating a cluster of meningococcal infections, including two deaths. The situation has drawn renewed attention to meningococcal group B, or MenB, an ...

Pharmacies in England are now offering a free meningitis B vaccine for many young people - Getty Meningitis is an infection of the protective membranes that surround the brain and spinal cord. It is ...

This week, Southern England was rocked by what health officials called an “explosive” wave of meningococcal meningitis infections that resulted in 11 “probable” and 20 confirmed cases, including two ...

TWO teenagers are in hospital with life-threatening meningitis while dozens have been offered antibiotics, officials confirmed today. The alarm was raised after it was discovered that one of the ...