Evening Press Reader's Letter
We all want to educate the public about meningitis, so teach your sub-editors to distinguish between meningitis due to a virus, which is almost always benign and requires no particular treatment, and meningococal meningitis, due to a bacterium and extremely dangerous ('School's Fear Over Deadly Virus', March 8).
"Deadly virus" merely adds to the general population's poor scientific knowledge about health.
Dr W D Stone,
The Manor House,
Tollerton,
York.
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