Sixth-form pupil dies from meningitis as two others treated

Lewis Waters, a sixth-form student, died from meningitis after rapidly developing sepsis; two other students are being treated for meningitis.

In Oxfordshire this week, a sixteen-year-old boy named Lewis Waters went from feeling mildly unwell to losing his life within hours, taken by meningitis B and the sepsis it unleashed. Two other students at nearby Reading schools are now being treated for the same disease, and close contacts have been offered antibiotics. His death arrives as a quiet indictment of a vaccination gap long acknowledged but not yet closed — the MenB vaccine protects infants in the UK, but not the teenagers most socially vulnerable to its spread. In the grief of one family, a public health question has become imposs

Sixth-form pupil dies from meningitis as two others treated

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