Anonymous17 days ago
An unprecedented meningitis B outbreak linked to a Canterbury nightclub has killed two young people, hospitalized 11 others, and spread internationally within days, prompting the UK to declare a national incident. The crisis has exposed a dangerous vaccination gap among university-age Britons who were never routinely offered the MenB vaccine — a gap that experts warn is mirrored and potentially widening in the United States after the CDC removed meningococcal vaccines from its routine childhood schedule in January 2026.