Meningitis outbreak in England: cause for concern?

Although meningitis is a terrible disease, the outbreak in Canterbury is not the start of a new pandemic, The Daily Telegraph is convinced:

“Meningitis B has the opposite profile to Covid. It is vastly rarer, and much slower to spread, but it attacks children and young people more than the old. Nine out of 10 cases cases affect children under five, with a second peak occurring among those aged around 16-23. It is also a much more dangerous disease, with a mortality rate of one in 10. A further 25 per cent of those who survive are left with life-altering complications, such as brain damage, blindness or limb amputation. The Kent outbreak of meningitis B – although unusually virulent – is small and contained enough that there really is no need for panic.”