{"id":343874,"date":"2026-05-15T15:00:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T14:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/school-pupils-treated-for-meningitis-in-reading\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T15:00:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T14:00:06","slug":"school-pupils-treated-for-meningitis-in-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/school-pupils-treated-for-meningitis-in-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"School pupils treated for meningitis in Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.ytimg.com\/vi\/jJ5NZr6lhLs\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"School pupils treated for meningitis in Reading\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jJ5NZr6lhLs\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Two young people being treated for meningitis in Reading are pupils at schools in the area, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>Three cases have been identified in Reading, including one college student who died earlier this week. Close contacts are being offered antibiotics as a precaution, the UKHSA said.<\/p>\n<p>Officials say the risk to the public from the meningitis outbreak is low.<br \/>\nIt is not thought to be the same strain as the fatal outbreak in Kent earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>[Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https:\/\/channel4news.substack.com\/subscribe]<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>Get more news at our site &#8211; https:\/\/www.channel4.com\/news\/ <\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https:\/\/channel4news.substack.com\/subscribe<\/p>\n<p>Follow us:<br \/>\nTikTok &#8211; https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@c4news<br \/>\nInstagram &#8211; https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/channel4news\/<br \/>\nTwitter &#8211; https:\/\/twitter.com\/Channel4News<br \/>\nFacebook &#8211; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Channel4News\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two young people being treated for meningitis in Reading are pupils at schools in the area, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has confirmed. Three cases have been identified in Reading, including one college student who died earlier this week. Close contacts are being offered antibiotics as a precaution, the UKHSA said. Officials say the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":343875,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128813],"tags":[128913,128896,131405],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-343874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-channel-4-news","tag-being","tag-people","tag-young"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>School pupils treated for meningitis in Reading | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch School pupils treated for meningitis in Reading for free, here on News ISC. 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