Some students wore masks in the queue for antibiotics outside a building at the University of Kent in Canterbury (Gareth Fuller/PA)
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Tamara Kormornick
18 March 2026
A student nightclub in Canterbury, Kent, is at the centre of a meningitis B outbreak that has so far caused over a dozen hospitalisations, and two deaths.
In this episode, host Tamara Kormornick speaks to immunisation specialist Dr Helen Burford, who is a professor of Children's Health at UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health. They discuss the difference between meningitis strains, why this variant might have spread in a nightclub and whether Londoners need to take action to protect their health.
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