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UK school leavers and new students to be offered meningitis B vaccine
The UK government will offer a meningitis B vaccine to teenagers in their final school year and new university students as part of a one-off program starting in July. This follows recent outbreaks in Kent, Dorset, and Berkshire that caused three deaths.
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