A university student, 21, and a school pupil, 18, are confirmed to have died in the outbreak, and 11 others are in hospital. The majority of young people born before 2015 have not been vaccinated for meningitis B unless they had it jab privately. The Meningitis B vaccine was introduced for babies born on or after 1 July 2015. That means it is "very possible" teenagers now will not have received it "because that was not on the schedule when those young adults were babies," Dr Ellie Cannon explained. Another vaccine, the MenACWY, protects against four strains of meningococcal bacteria and is offered to teenagers at school when they are around 13 or 14 years old. Dr Tom Nutt said meningitis can cause "devastation when it strikes" and that around one in 10 people infected by bacterial meningitis will die.