Stay up to date with notifications from The IndependentNotifications can be managed in browser preferences.Jump to contentThank you for registeringPlease refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged inAllNewsSportCultureLifestyleLewis Waters, a 17-year-old student at Henley College in Oxfordshire, died from meningitis after falling ill on Tuesday morning and rapidly developing sepsis. His father, Simon Waters, paid tribute to his "kind-hearted" son, expressing the family's devastation at the sudden loss. Two other students, from Reading Blue Coat School and Highdown Secondary School, are also being treated for meningitis, prompting the UK Health Security Agency to offer antibiotics to close contacts. The UKHSA confirmed that the infection is not the same strain of meningitis B linked to a fatal outbreak in Kent earlier this year. Liberal Democrat MP Freddie van Mierlo and the National Union of Students have called on the Government to implement a wider catch-up vaccination programme for young adults against meningitis B. In full‘Life won’t be the same now he’s gone’: Tributes paid to student who died of meningitis in ReadingThank you for registeringPlease refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged in
Father pays tribute to ‘kind-hearted’ son who died after meningitis outbreak
Stay up to date with notifications from The IndependentNotifications can be managed in browser preferences.Jump to contentThank you for registeringPlease refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged inAllNewsSportCultureLifestyleLewis Waters, a 17-year-old student at Henley College in Oxfordshire, died from meningitis after falling ill on Tuesday morning and rapidly developing sepsis. His father, Simon Waters, paid tribute to his "kind-hearted" son, expressing the family's devastation at the sudden loss. Two other students, from Reading Blue Coat School and Highdown Secondary School, are also being treated for meningitis, prompting the UK Health Security Agency to offer antibiotics to close contacts. The UKHSA confirmed that the infection is not the same strain of meningitis B linked to a fatal outbreak in Kent earlier this year. Liberal Democrat MP Freddie van Mierlo and the National Union of Students have called on the Government to implement a wider catch-up vaccination programme for young adults against meningitis B. In full‘Life won’t be the same now he’s gone’: Tributes paid to student who died of meningitis in ReadingThank you for registeringPlease refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged in
