Jack Stewart is running from John O' Groats, in Scotland, to Land's End in Cornwall to raise money for charity.
Dean Holden and his wife Danielle have spoken about their loss as they launch a new YouTube series.
A one-off summer vaccination programme is in operation for students preparing to start university.
The NHS in the county says just over 700 people who taken up the offer in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin.
Meningitis Now hopes more people will now be able to take part in the annual event.
It follows the UK's largest and fastest growing meningitis B outbreak to date in Kent earlier this year.
Those heading off to uni for the first time this September are urged to get protected against MenB.
Young people starting university for the first time are being urged to take up the MenB vaccines
Councillor Obaida Ahmed says people going to university for the first time should get vaccinated.
