#meningitis-outbreak

#meningitis-outbreak

The meningitis outbreak in our area is a huge shock. Feeling so deeply sad for the young lives lost a year 13 pupil at QEGS [Queen Elizabeth's grammar school] and a uni of Kent student. My heart goes out to their families. It's incredibly worrying too for the families of the young people in hospital, and others at risk.

We understand that many people at the university and in the wider community will be affected by this sad news and we would like to offer our condolences to the friends and family involved. Students and staff will understandably be feeling worried about the risk of further cases; however, we would like to reassure them that close contacts of cases have been given antibiotics as a precautionary measure.