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Meningitis concern after youth dies at festival

People who went to the Boardmasters Festival in Newquay last weekend are being reassured after a teenager who was at the event died of meningitis.


It's thought that 18-year-old George Zographou from Bristol was exposed to the meningoccoal bacterium before he went to the festival.

He was taken ill at Boardmasters and died in hospital in Cornwall on Monday.

Public Health England says the risk of anyone who went to the festival  getting the disease is small, but they're being advised to be aware of the symptoms.

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