'Unusual' meningitis outbreak that has killed two Kent students could be caused by new strain of bacteria, experts fear as hundreds queue for antibiotics

The victims, aged from 17 to 21, were a student at the University of Kent in Canterbury and a sixth-former at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School in nearby Faversham.


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