# Scientists discover why Kent meningitis strain was so severe

https://mins.news/en/video/71084

- BBC News, 2026-09-23 17:30 UTC
- Health
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmIRDmepPjo

> 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.