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Is meningitis life threatening?
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Dr Sarah Jarvis
On average there are around 3,200 cases of bacterial meningitis a year; after babies, 16-25 year olds are the age group most affected.
Experts are currently worried about an increase in cases associated with a particularly aggressive MenW strain, called ST-11 - in 2009/10 there were only 22 cases in England, but this went up to 210 cases in 2015/16. Scarily, one in seven teenagers infected with MenW don't survive.
https://patient.info/health/meningitis-leaflet/features/do-you-need-the-meningitis-jab
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