Meningitis cases in Reading are pupils at two schools, UKHSA says

Two meningitis cases have been confirmed in Reading pupils attending Reading Blue Coat School and Highdown Secondary School, with close contacts being offered antibiotics as a precaution. A sixth-form student at Henley College in Oxfordshire died earlier this week, and the UKHSA has identified a social network connecting all three young people, though the specific details of their links have not been disclosed. One case has been confirmed as Meningitis B, which the UKHSA says is not the same strain as previous MenB outbreaks, and the agency states the risk to the wider public is low.