Health authorities are yet to identify the exact strain that has killed two students - one a sixth-former in Canterbury, the other studying at the University of Kent - and left 11 others seriously ill.
But we know we are dealing with the bacterial form of meningitis. Thankfully, not as common as it once was, but no less devastating.
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"There's been less and less disease thanks to the effectiveness of vaccines, which are now available on the NHS", said Dr Tom Nutt, chief executive of charity Meningitis Now.
"So to get a big cluster like this in Canterbury, I think, is pretty shocking and pretty unusual."
Babies, children and young adults are most at risk, and the bacterial infection - sluggish compared to respiratory viruses like colds and flu - has more chance to spread through the social scene and shared accommodation of colleges and universities.
The UK Health Security Agency says it has shared information with 30,000 people in the outbreak area.
Contacts of cases are being traced and offered antibiotics to prevent new infections, reducing the risk that the current outbreak will grow. The risk to anyone outside of the outbreak itself is lower still.
But for those made ill, along with the 300 to 400 people each year in England unlucky enough to get bacterial meningitis, also called meningococcal disease, it's horrific.
Meningitis causes swelling of the membranes lining the brain and spinal cord, which itself can be life-threatening, as well as the risk of brain or nerve damage in those who recover.
But there's also a high risk of blood infection, leading to sepsis, once the bacteria crosses the blood-brain barrier.
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Symptoms - which include a high temperature, severe headache, cold hands and feet, a stiff neck, delirium and fatigue - can worsen extremely rapidly.
"When it comes to bacterial meningitis, which is what we're talking about today, around about one in 10 people affected may die, and the disease can kill people within 24 hours or less", said Dr Nutt.
Thankfully, vaccination has reduced the burden of meningitis across the board. Babies are offered routine immunisation against meningitis B, the most common strain.
The NHS also vaccinates teenagers, typically in year 9 or 10, with the meningitis ACWY jab that protects against other, less common, but equally dangerous strains.
However, after a huge drop in cases due to less social mixing during the pandemic, meningitis is on the rise again.
Worryingly, vaccination rates have fallen at the same time, particularly among teenagers.
According to UKHSA data, Meningitis ACWY vaccination rates for year 9 students were 88% before the pandemic compared to 72% now.
In the autumn, the UKHSA and campaign groups reminded students headed for college and university to check if they had the vaccine. Catch-up doses are available on the NHS for anyone under 25 who missed their scheduled dose.
Campaigners are also pushing for teenagers and young adults to be offered the meningitis B vaccine. Because it was only introduced a decade ago, there is a "gap" in vaccination coverage for teenagers who would have missed the jab as babies - and protection wanes over time.
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The MenB jab is an expensive jab offered to babies, given they carry the highest risk of illness and death.
Even though the strain involved in the current outbreak hasn't yet been identified, Dr Nutt says it should serve as a wake-up call.
"We believe that all those most at risk of disease should be given that vaccination on the NHS."
Vaccine protection isn't perfect, though, and wanes over time.
Public health officials and charities are reminding those in the affected area, especially young people and their parents, to be vigilant for symptoms of meningitis or sepsis and to call 111 as soon as possible if they are concerned.
The Premier League said the transfer ban for Chelsea's first team had been suspended for two years. The west London club have also been given a nine-month academy transfer ban.
All sanctions will "take effect immediately", with the club also paying the full costs of the investigation and disciplinary process, the league said.
However, sixth-placed Chelsea have avoided a points deduction.
The fine is the highest imposed by the Premier League, beating the previous record of £5.5m given to West Ham United in 2007 over the signings of Carlos Tevez and Javier Mascherano.
A league investigation found that, between 2011 and 2018, more than £47.5m of undisclosed payments by third parties associated with Chelsea were made to players, unregistered agents and other third parties.
Payments were made from entities which the league said were "controlled by or associated with" the club's then owner Roman Abramovich to unlicensed agents and individuals connected to selling clubs which helped to facilitate transfers for players, including Eden Hazard, Samuel Eto'o and Willian.
The league was satisfied that no current Chelsea employee was involved in, or knew about, the payments. There was also no suggestion of any wrongdoing regarding the players involved in the transfers.
It was accepted that had the new US owners not proactively reported their concerns upon completing their takeover of Chelsea in 2022, the breaches would potentially never have been discovered.
That, combined with Chelsea's "exceptional" cooperation, and the fact the payments would not have put the club in breach of profitability and sustainability rules if they had been properly accounted for at the time, meant a points penalty was not deemed appropriate.
In a statement, the league said: "The payments were made for the benefit of Chelsea FC, and should have been treated as having been made by the club.
"The club has also accepted, among other things, that the making of these payments, as well as the failure to disclose them to the league, constituted a breach of the requirement to act in good faith towards the league."
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Chelsea, who shared more than 200,000 documents with the Premier League, said they were "pleased that the matter is now concluded".
In a statement, the club added: "During an extensive Premier League investigation, the club proactively disclosed many thousands of documents.
"From the outset of this process, the club has treated these matters with the utmost seriousness, providing full cooperation to all relevant regulators."
Speaking on Monday ahead of Chelsea's Champions League game against Paris Saint-Germain on Tuesday night, head coach Liam Rosenior said; "I think actually that's a line drawn through that issue, and we can move on and we can plan to make this club as strong as possible in the long term."
A separate disciplinary process involving the club's alleged breaches of Football Association regulations "arising out of similar conduct" remains ongoing, the league said.
The US National Weather Service (NWS) has around 10 states under a tornado watch as of Monday, as heavy snow continued to fall further inland across the Upper Midwest and upper Great Lakes region.
Sky's US partner network NBC News reports that the mid-Atlantic - specifically from northern South Carolina to southern Maryland - is at risk of winds of more than 75mph and tornadoes.
The outlet also reports that more than 120 million people from the Mississippi Valley into New England are under wind alerts.
Another 60 million, from northern Florida to New York state, are at risk from severe storms capable of destructive winds and numerous tornadoes.
Thousands of flights cancelled
The US government ordered federal employees in the Washington area to leave their offices by 2pm eastern time (7pm in the UK) because of the risks from high winds and severe thunderstorms.
Elsewhere, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) told flights to remain on the ground at Reagan Washington National Airport in Virginia and Charlotte Douglas International in North Carolina but the order was later lifted.
The agency added that it was delaying flights at New York's LaGuardia and JFK airports, as well as at Houston Bush in Texas and Newark in New Jersey, due to weather issues.
According to Reuters, more than 10,000 flights have been cancelled or delayed as of Monday afternoon due to weather.
Energy companies from New York to Tennessee have put workers on standby to respond to repairs from downed power lines.
New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani also warned on X that wind gusts could reach as much as 55mph in the area.
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The US also saw record-breaking snowfall toward the start of the year, with a blizzard in January leaving more than 810,000 homes without power, and thousands of flights cancelled.
According to the NWS, at least 180 million people in 37 states - more than half America's population - were affected.
The planet, named L 98-59 d, is covered with magma and has a noxious and fiercely hot sulfur-rich atmosphere.
It has a diameter more than 60% greater than that of the Earth, though its density is only about 40% in comparison.
The planet orbits a star dimmer and slighter than the sun located around 34 light-years from Earth in the constellation Volans.
A light-year is the distance light travels in a year, 5.9 trillion miles (9.5 trillion km).
"The planet lacks distinct structure within its magma ocean, so there is no crust, upper mantle and lower mantle. The magma ocean is a single deep, mushy layer," said Harrison Nicholls, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Cambridge Institute of Astronomy.
Mr Nicholls is the lead author of the research published on Monday in the journal Nature Astronomy.
Small crystals of solid rock may be trapped within the turbulent fluid magma that makes up the mantle, Mr Nicholls added.
The planet's metallic core appears to be relatively small, with the magma ocean comprising 70-90% of the planetary interior radius - reaching a depth of between 2,775 and 3,565 miles (4,465-5,740 km).
Its thick atmosphere is primarily made up of hydrogen, but has a very high sulfur content.
Around 10% of the atmosphere is the toxic gas hydrogen sulfide, giving off the odour of rotten eggs.
The atmosphere has created a runaway greenhouse effect, trapping heat from the star, that keeps the planet's surface hot enough to remain molten.
"Your nose can smell hydrogen sulfide at concentrations of something like one part per billion, so this would be overwhelmingly stinky. But you wouldn't survive long enough in this hot atmosphere to notice," said planetary scientist and study co-author Raymond Pierrehumbert of the University of Oxford and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The atmosphere's composition suggests a high sulfur content in the planetary interior, according to the researchers.
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The planet was discovered in 2019, then was observed by the James Webb Space Telescope in 2024, and by ground-based telescopes in 2025.
The researchers used advanced computer simulations to reconstruct its history, spanning nearly five billion years, making it somewhat older than Earth, which is estimated to be 4.54 billion years old.
The planet orbits a common form of star called a red dwarf.
The star's mass is just under 30% that of the sun, and its luminosity around 1% that of the sun.
L 98-59 d is the third of five planets known to orbit this star.
More than 6,100 planets beyond our solar system, called exoplanets, have been discovered since the 1990s.
But this planet's unique combination of a magma ocean, and a sulfur-laden atmosphere, puts it in a class by itself - for now.
"This planet's surface is in excess of 1,500 degrees Celsius (2,732 degrees Fahrenheit), so it would not harbour life as we know it," Mr Nicholls added.
Aspiring DJ Christian St Louis, 22, from Middleton, Greater Manchester, invited the King to take to the mixing table on his visit.
King Charles met young people who have received support from the King's Trust charity as he toured Aviva Studios, home of the city's arts organisation Factory International.
As Mr St Louis showed the King how to hone his skills on the decks, he explained: "First, you load up the tracks and then play this one. There are so many buttons. Once you know what to do, it's easy."
The King moved to the music as one onlooker said: "It's not as easy as it looks, is it?"
Charles laughed and replied: "You just have to get the hang of it."
Mr St Louis, formerly from east London, told the King that taking a DJing course through the trust had been "more than helpful".
He said: "I always wanted to DJ. Now I know I can do it."
Mr St Louis said that he was looking for a job to save up and buy his own decks, with the goal of releasing an EP.
In 2024, the King's Trust joined forces with the Elba Hope Foundation, a public charity founded by actor and DJ Idris Elba and his wife Sabrina to launch Creative Futures.
The range of free courses is designed to inspire young people through the arts, building their skills and confidence to work in the creative industries.
Mr Elba was supported by the King's Trust, formerly the Prince's Trust, as a teenager.
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Creative Futures has helped more than 100 young people in Manchester and is now supporting young people in other parts of the UK.
The Factory Academy, launched in 2018 by Factory International, aims to provide accessible career pathways into the creative industries and boost creative skills across the region.
Charles unveiled a plaque to mark his visit, and was then treated to a performance outside by a choir from the Royal Northern College of Music.
On his next stop, Charles attended the launch of Circularity in Practice, a new initiative repurposing and reusing pre-loved items to reduce waste.
At the launch of the project at the Renew Hub on Trafford Park, run by waste and recycling firm Suez, the King handled a compression staple gun to finish off a French-style settee, reupholstered with fabric from London's Royal Opera House.