A junior school pupil is being treated for meningitis in Reading, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has said.
The Westwood Farm Junior School pupil is the fourth young person to contract the infection, with all four linked to the same wider social network, the UKHSA said.
Last week, Lewis Waters, who attended The Henley College in Oxfordshire, died with the infection.
Two others cases were reported in Reading – at Reading Blue Coat School and Highdown Secondary School and Sixth Form Centre.
The UKHSA said the Westwood Farm pupil was “recovering well” and confirmed close contacts linked to all four had been offered antibiotics as a precaution.
