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Health agency names two schools affected by Berkshire meningitis outbreak

Reading Blue Coat school and Highdown secondary school and Sixth Form Centre, according to the UK [Health](https://www.theguardian.com/society/health) Security Agency. Their close contacts have been offered antibiotics as a precaution. The agency confirmed

Call for more meningitis vaccines after teen dies

Reading, are also being treated for meningitis. "Young lives are really precious and we should do everything we can to protect them," said Dr Tom Nutt, chief executive of Meningitis Now. The Department of Health