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Student dies after meningitis treatment as UKHSA traces contacts in Reading schools

A sixth-form student from Henley College in Oxfordshire has died after being treated for meningitis in hospital in Reading, prompting health officials to trace close contacts and offer precautionary antibiotics to people linked to the case. The UK Health Security Agency said two other students are a

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