A junior school pupil has become the fourth person to contract meningitis in an outbreak in Reading. The patient has 'links with the same wider social network' as the other cases in the outbreak, which has left one college student dead. Lewis Waters, a teenager from Reading who attended The Henley College in Oxfordshire, died from the illness last Tuesday. On Friday, it emerged that two further patients being treated for meningitis were pupils at separate schools in the area - Reading Blue Coat School and Highdown Secondary School and Sixth Form Centre.The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said all four cases have been confirmed as meningitis B. Dr Rachel Mearkle, consultant in health protection, said: 'A fourth case of meningococcal disease has been confirmed in Reading.'This fourth case has links with the same wider social network as the other cases, where measures, including antibiotic prophylaxis, have already been implemented.'The individual, who attends Westwood Farm Junior School, is recovering well.'Information has been shared with parents and carers at the school to advise of the signs and symptoms to look out for. All four cases have been confirmed to be meningitis B.'The risk to the wider public remains low and this case is not linked to the incidents in Kent or Dorset.' Lewis Waters, a sixth-form pupil from Reading who went to The Henley College in Oxfordshire, died from the illness last Tuesday