HealthScientists discover why Kent meningitis strain was so severe

Scientists say they have found why the bacterium behind the UK’s worst meningitis B outbreak earlier this year was so dangerous. More than 20 young people, mostly students, were infected in a March outbreak linked to a Canterbury nightclub. All required hospital treatment, nine went to intensive care and two died. UKHSA and Oxford experts identified part of the explanation by examining the bacterium’s DNA.