Thought Meningitis Only Struck Children? Read On

Daily MailNovember 18, 2008

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EIGHTEEN months ago Dee Waterton was feeling the healthiest she'd ever been. The 55-year-old had just run a half-marathon and given up her job as a GP's receptionist to work as a nail technician.

Then one Saturday evening she started to feel feverish and decided to have an early night. By lunchtime the next day, she was nearly dead.

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Thought Meningitis Only Struck Children? Read On

'On the Saturday I felt like I was coming down with the flu,' she recalls. 'I thought perhaps the half-marathon had run me down as I was usually so robust health-wise. My joints ached so much even having the duvet on top of me hurt.

'I also had a headache, my teeth wouldn't stop chattering and I was freezing cold. I took some painkillers ...

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