University of Kent ‘a ghost town’ after students flee deadly meningitis outbreak

Students queue for emergency antibiotics in the emptying campus

The university campus is normally a place full of laughter, students mingling and exchanging ideas or planning their next big night out.

But many at the University of Kent have fled home after a deadly outbreak of meningitis claimed the lives of two young people and left around a dozen in hospital.

Now the campus is patrolled by health authorities in full hazmat suits overnight, with the only queues for life-saving antibiotics and face masks...