A fourth case of meningitis in an outbreak in Reading has been confirmed in a junior school pupil. The child is part of a group of students who have contracted Meningitis B (MenB).
West Berkshire Council said today that a pupil at Westwood Farm Junior School was diagnosed and is recovering well in hospital. It comes after, Lewis Waters, a sixth form student who attended The Henley College in Oxfordshire, died from the disease last week. On Tuesday, Dr Rachel Mearkle, consultant in health protection at the UK Health Security Agency, said: “A fourth case of meningococcal disease has been confirmed in Reading.
“This fourth case has links with the same wider social network as the other cases, where measures, including antibiotic prophylaxis, have already been implemented.”
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