Health authorities in England are investigating a meningitis outbreak linked to schools and colleges in the Reading and Oxfordshire area after one student died and two other young people were hospitalised.

One of the cases has been identified as meningitis B, the same strain linked to a cluster of fatal incidents in Kent earlier this year

A student at Henley College has died and two other young people are ill following an outbreak of meningitis in Reading, the UK Health Security Agency said

A college student in the UK has died from meningitis while two others are receiving treatment, health officials said as reported by BBC.