The UK meningitis outbreak has landed in France, with a person in hospital after returning from England.
The first case of meningitis has been hospitalised in France, the Health Crisis Center announced to BFMTV. The patient, who had returned from England where a deadly epidemic is raging, is in stable condition.
The patient “has been hospitalised and is in stable condition,” health authorities stated. He had just returned from England, where the outbreak, which began in the Canterbury region in the southeast of the country, is raging. British Health Secretary Wes Streeting announced on Tuesday that fifteen cases had been reported to the authorities, describing the outbreak as “unprecedented” .
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