Six months on, scientists say they know why the Canterbury meningitis outbreak was so severe
Twenty-one people fell ill in a week and two died after a night out in March. A new genetic analysis by UKHSA and Oxford finds the strain had borrowed genes from harmless throat bacteria, and that the same changes may explain why it burned out.
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