{"id":87473,"date":"2026-03-16T14:44:04","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T14:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/two-people-dead-after-meningitis-outbreak-in-kent-england-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T14:44:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T14:44:04","slug":"two-people-dead-after-meningitis-outbreak-in-kent-england-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/two-people-dead-after-meningitis-outbreak-in-kent-england-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Two people dead after meningitis outbreak in Kent, England | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two people have died following an outbreak of meningitis in Kent, England, and the BBC understands 11 more in the <!--more--> Canterbury area are in hospital and are seriously ill.<\/p>\n<p>Tributes have been paid to one of the victims, Juliette, a Year 13 student at a grammar school in Faversham. A 21-year-old university student has also died.<\/p>\n<p>The UKHSA has contacted 30,000 people in the local area about the outbreak and hundreds of students have been queueing at the University of Kent for antibiotics.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our channel here: <a href=\"https:\/\/bbc.in\/bbcnews\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/bbc.in\/bbcnews<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the latest news download the BBC News app or visit BBC.com\/news<\/p>\n<p>#Meningitis #BBCNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two people have died following an outbreak of meningitis in Kent, England, and the BBC understands 11 more in the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":87489,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}