UK launches one-off MenB vaccination programme in wake of largest outbreak

British health authorities said on Friday they will offer thousands of students protection against meningococcal B disease (MenB) through a one-off vaccination programme, acting after the country’s largest outbreak of the disease earlier this year.

• Two people died in March in a MenB outbreak in Kent, southeast England, which health authorities said was the largest and fastest-growing ever seen in Britain....