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New advice follows a large outbreak in Kent earlier this year, which sadly led to two deaths. UK experts are asking the government to routinely offer meningitis B jabs to secondary school pupils to better protect them. Currently, only babies get the MenB vaccine, meaning teenagers over 11 are unprotected.
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