From The Times and the Sunday Times, this is the story.

I'm Manvine Rana.

I contracted meningitis in February of 2017.

I was 20 years old and I was in my second year of university.

That's Neve Curran. She's a reporter here in the newsroom at the Times and the Sunday Times.

I don't know how I contracted it.

The disease has quite a long incubation period,

which makes it quite hard to know exactly who I got it from.

I'd gone to my lectures in that morning

and I was trying to write an essay on international relations

and started feeling pretty unwell.

By about 7pm, I was in my pyjamas

and my temperature was spiking.

I started feeling achy over my body and the headache was awful, really awful.

By the morning, I knew I was very sick. I had gone to the bathroom and on my legs, there were

these small bruises that covered the top of my thighs.

I always described it as they looked like you've made a bunch of bruises with a capri sun straw.

And then when I went back to my room, I rolled up my sleeve and the same bruises were all over my arms.

I texted my mum and she told me I needed to go get help immediately.

I then made my way to the porters in my college.

And at that point, a paramedic was called.

I was then taken to hospital where I was put in an isolation room in A&E.

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