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MeningitisB outbreak should authorities be doing more?

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Sago Wed 18-Mar-26 10:34:41

Has the UKHSA acted quickly enough?
It was confirmed on Friday but not made public for 48hours.

This awful infection can take 2-10 days before symptoms appear.

Students from Kent could be returning home for Easter and spreading this countrywide.

Surely Covid taught us that to act quickly is key.

In 1962 there was a few cases of Smallpox in Bradford, this was dealt with and contained very quickly without all the technology available to us today.
Below is a link to the e story, it’s an interesting read.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradford_smallpox_outbreak_of_1962#:~:text=The%20outbreak%20resulted%20in%2014,over%20on%2012%20February%201962.

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Visgir1 Fri 20-Mar-26 08:47:48

I have knowledge of two Toddlers under 2 who both got Meningitis B. My niece who was so lucky her mother my sister was a Neonatal Nurse. My niece went downhill quickly, my sister got her to a GP who admitted her to the Hospital ASAP. She was fine that morning at a play group party, then a few hours after, she became was so unwell. Thankfully she had antibiotics administered in time and made a full recovery.

Few years ago I was working with a lovely chap same thing happened, unfortunately his toddler niece died and the father was a Doctor heartbreaking.
So it not just teenagers, it always been around, no idea how my neice got it?

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MartavTaurus Fri 20-Mar-26 08:53:46

A good friend of mine, aged 50 got it a couple of years back. No idea how, it came so quickly. Sadly she died.

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