Advisers are asking the government to consider introducing MenB jabs following concerns over an outbreak in Kent earlier this year, in which two people died.

All teenagers should be offered a free vaccine against meningitis B (MenB) at around the age of 15, UK experts are now recommending - a change to previous advice. It follows concerns over the UK's largest and fastest growing outbreak that happened in Kent earlier this year, in which two people died. As a precaution, a one-off vaccination campaign is already being launched around the UK this summer for young people heading off to university for the first time, among some others. Advisers, external are asking the government to consider introducing MenB jabs routinely for secondary school-aged people to better protect them against a disease that can be deadly. Anthony Mills, whose 18-year-old son Aaron died of MenB after falling ill during the Christmas break from his studies in Liverpool, said teenagers getting the jab was his son's "legacy". Aaron's family has been raising awareness and fundraising for Meningitis Now, in the months since his death. The Department of Health and Social Care said: "We will consider the advice and will update on any future programme in due course." It will be up to ministers in each nation of the UK to decide whether the financial cost of providing this via the NHS is worth it and, if so, how to offer it.