article_snippet.sent: It's good news on meningitis, despite a scare for my son .
article_snippet.sent: I instantly recognised these to be red-flag symptoms of Meningitis and rushed with my eight-year-old son to our local A&E, where it was confirmed my eight-year-old son had the viral form of the disease, which is thankfully less severe – but no less serious – than the bacterial kind.
article_snippet.sent: I couldn't help thinking it was quite a coincidence: I wrote on these very pages just a few weeks ago about the worrying rise of a rarer form of the disease, Meningitis W.
article_snippet.sent: And all of this happened in the week that Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt finally announced Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt will make the Meningitis B vaccine part of the routine UK vaccination schedule.