A COLLEGE student at has died of meningococcal disease, the UK Health Security Agency has confirmed.
The agency said the Bury College student had died of 'confirmed meningococcal disease' and its Greater Manchester Protection team is working to prevent 'the further spread of this infection. The college named him as barbering student Alfie Mullans, and also confirmed he is the second student to die of meningococcal disease - which can cause meningitis and septicaemia - in three months.
An unnamed student at the college also died in March this year, the college confirmed, but health bosses say the two cases are not related or linked and are different strains of meningococcal disease.
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