Manchester Student Meningococcal Infection
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March 22, 2026
Yesterday I wrote an essay about an outbreak of virulent meningococcal infection in Canterbury near the University of Kent in which I posed the question Gain-of-Function at the Manchester Meningococcal Reference Unit? This morning I woke up to the news that a student at St John Rigby College in Wigan—twenty miles west of Manchester—is suspected […]
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