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Helen and Lee Draper have shared their concerns about the potential for another meningitis outbreak similar to the one experienced in Kent, emphasizing the need for a broader availability of the MenB vaccine. Their daughter, Meg Draper, tragically passed away from Meningitis B while she was an 18-year-old student at the University of Bournemouth in October 2025. Though Meg had received immunizations for meningitis strains A, C, W, and Y at the age of 14 through the NHS vaccination program, she had not been vaccinated against MenB, as this vaccine is only offered routinely to children born after 2015.
Following Meg’s death, the UK government requested that the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) reconsider who should
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