Five new meningitis cases in Kent as students tell BBC of anxiety on campus

Posted: 18th March 2026

Source: Five new meningitis cases in Kent as health secretary says risk of disease spreading widely is low – BBC News

Gabriella Pitch is a fourth-year student studying film and management at the University of Kent.

“When I first heard about the outbreak on the news I freaked out,” she says.

“Then I went into the kitchen of our student house and told my friends and they all freaked out.”

Gabriella says she knows of one of the Kent University students who is in hospital with meningitis, adding that “most of my friends have taken the antibiotics”.

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