UK Meningitis Outbreak Widens as Antibiotics, Shots Advised (1)

The UK raised the alarm over a meningitis outbreak as health authorities advised antibiotics and started a targeted vaccination program for prevention.

The country’s Health Security Agency warned of a “rapidly evolving situation” as it counted 20 likely cases, all of them in young adults. The outbreak began in the southeastern county of Kent earlier this month but a patient presented at a London hospital and there may be further contamination, the agency said Wednesday.

Doctors across the country have been advised to prescribe antibiotics to University of Kent students and anyone who visited Club Chemistry in Canterbury, a ...