{"id":86601,"date":"2026-03-19T15:27:32","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T15:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=86601"},"modified":"2026-03-19T15:27:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T15:27:32","slug":"three-cheerleaders-in-hospital-with-meningitis-as-outbreak-hits-london-college-and-morrisons-depot-with-medics-left-mystified-at-speed-of-spread-and-cases-rise-to-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/03\/19\/three-cheerleaders-in-hospital-with-meningitis-as-outbreak-hits-london-college-and-morrisons-depot-with-medics-left-mystified-at-speed-of-spread-and-cases-rise-to-27\/","title":{"rendered":"Three cheerleaders in hospital with meningitis as outbreak hits London college and Morrisons depot with medics left mystified at speed of spread and cases rise to 27"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2026\/03\/19\/11\/107259087-15660437-image-a-75_1773920591178.jpg\" alt=\"A student receives the Meningitis B vaccine at the University of Kent in Canterbury today\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The number of meningitis cases in the Kent outbreak rose to 27 today including one in\u00a0<span data-track-module=\"internal-body-link\"><a id=\"mol-4a3aeaf0-237f-11f1-ac7f-bfcf7dda3ae6\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/london\/index.html\" target=\"_self\">London<\/a><\/span>, as three university cheerleaders were in hospital\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-15660437\/Meningitis-cases-rise-outbreak-spread-second-university-vaccines.html\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>The number of meningitis cases in the Kent outbreak rose to 27 today including one in\u00a0London, as three university cheerleaders were in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":86532,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-86601","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Meninigitis-queue.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86602,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86601\/revisions\/86602"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}