UK says vaccine protects against strain in deadly meningitis outbreak

Britain’s health authorities said on Friday that early laboratory analysis had showed the vaccine being offered to students should protect against the strain of meningitis behind an outbreak in southeast England that has killed two people.

The UK Health Security Agency said the strain belonged to a group of meningococci known as ST-41/44, which had been circulating in the country in recent years.

The confirmation that the Bexsero vaccine covers the strain had given “important reassurance,” the agency said...