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Sporadic household clusters of meningitis could appear over the next four weeks in other parts of the UK linked to the travel of people away from Kent, a health leader has said. Kent County Council’s director of public health Dr Anjan Ghosh told a briefing three scenarios were being looked at over the next four weeks, with the most likely being that students who have travelled away from Kent will “incubate” the bug and there could be “household” cases elsewhere.

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00:00So, those are the scenarios over the next four weeks, and because that's the time it takes for this whole
00:06thing to really subside, so it takes about four weeks.
00:10Now, the first scenario is it stays more or less contained in Kent, and whatever cases we're seeing, there's a
00:17few more, like you just said, Hugh, which add to that number, and that's it.
00:21Second scenario is that there are people who've left, so they've gone off campus, and many of them don't stay
00:27in Kent, so they go and stay elsewhere.
00:30They were incubating when they left, and then they become cases, and there are small household, sporadic clusters outside of
00:37Kent, so that's the second scenario.
00:39But they're all containable, they're not really major things.
00:43Third scenario is a worst-case scenario, which is basically that those cases which have gone out of Kent, that
00:49results in another cluster outside of Kent.
00:53So, those are the three scenarios. The most likely is the second.
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