News & Stories
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Katie and Tilly's story
Katie’s 2-year-old daughter Tilly had a high temperature, was sick and lethargic. She contacted her GP but when a rash began to appear and didn’t fade when she did the glass test, she immediately called 999
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Corey's story
Corey from Gravesend was just 20 months old when he fell ill with meningitis back in 2004. Fifteen years on, Corey, now 16, told us how much he feels a part of the Meningitis Now family
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Gemma M's story
Gemma had a range of symptoms including fever, sickness, photophobia, a very bad head pain, stiff neck and confusion. The 21-year-old from Basildon in Essex had contracted viral meningitis
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Lindsey's story
Nursery assistant Lindsey was 44 when she became unwell with an earache, headache and high temperature in September 2018. It was initially diagnosed as an ear infection, but when she started having seizures her worried partner called an ambulance
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Kevin D's story
Kevin contracted meningitis as a very young child, which caused him to lose most of his eyesight. But he has never let this define him and has gone on to lead a very fulfilling life
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Joanne J's story
Joanne Jeffries from Congleton in Cheshire was glad she called NHS Direct when she did because once they heard her talk they called an ambulance
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Stuart B's story
Twenty-one-year-old Stuart died suddenly of meningococcal meningitis and septicaemia whilst at university in Coventry in 1998
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Cat's story
When Cat started uni in October 2015 she was an "extremely healthy 20-year-old who had just spent her gap year running around working various jobs abroad"; until she became seriously unwell
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Lauren and George's story
At first Lauren thought her baby son George had picked up a cold, but when his breathing became fast and laboured and he started to make groaning noises she acted immediately to get medical help
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Af's story
From feeling run down with a cold to being rushed into hospital and dying within days; Caroline says the sudden, shocking death of husband Af from meningitis aged just 40 has been hard to deal with
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Casey's story
Nicola had an instinct that her baby daughter Casey was seriously ill, despite her only symptom being a high temperature. Luckily for her she acted on it immediately and Casey was later found to have contracted meningitis
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Joshua C's story
Heather and her husband have been left with anxiety after their son Joshua recovered from bacterial meningitis – a common outcome for parents whose babies fall ill. Heather, from Holytown in Lanarkshire, told us their story