Father pays tribute to ‘kind-hearted’ son who died after meningitis outbreak

• Lewis Waters, a 17-year-old student at Henley College in Oxfordshire, died from meningitis after falling ill on Tuesday morning and rapidly developing sepsis.
• His father, Simon Waters, paid tribute to his "kind-hearted" son, expressing the family's devastation at the sudden loss.
• Two other students, from Reading Blue Coat School and Highdown Secondary School, are also being treated for meningitis, prompting the UK Health Security Agency to offer antibiotics to close contacts.
• The UKHSA confirmed that the infection is not the same strain of meningitis B linked to a fatal outbreak in Kent earlier this year.
• Liberal Democrat MP Freddie van Mierlo and the National Union of Students have called on the Government to implement a wider catch-up vaccination programme for young adults against meningitis B.

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‘Life won’t be the same now he’s gone’: Tributes paid to student who died of meningitis in Reading