News & Stories
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Bex and Emily's story
Bex’s one-year-old daughter Emily had a range of symptoms including lethargy and a stiff neck. Despite these and suffering seizures she was discharged twice from hospital and it was only on a late night third visit that her meningitis was suspected and successfully treated
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Rio's story
Baby Rio was just over a week old when he became poorly, on the hottest day of the year. Mum Leah, from Didcot in Oxfordshire drove him to hospital that night, where bacterial meningitis was diagnosed
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Enzo J's story
Katie had to make the heartbreaking decision to turn her son Enzo’s life support machine off after scans showed meningitis had left the youngster brain dead
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Catarina's story
Catarina Nunes from London spent a terrifying six weeks in hospital in March this year while doctors tried to work out what was wrong with her
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Alice G's story
Alice Gall, from Perth in Scotland, was 41 when she contracted bacterial meningitis just before Christmas in 2017
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Lewis' story
Tracy and Morley’s son Lewis was an active, happy young man working as a joiner with his dad when meningitis tragically took his life
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Bea's story
Louisa’s young daughter Bea had a high temperature, sickness, a painful neck and was lethargic. Doctors initially thought she had a viral infection but it was something more serious – pneumococcal meningitis
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Leo G's story
Georgia’s little son Leo went from being a normal, giggly baby to a very sick little boy – all within the space of an hour
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Holly J's story
Holly, from Cambridgeshire, was on her way to Norway on a work trip when she started to feel ill. She managed to get to the airport and through security but collapsed before making it on to the plane
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Michael B's story
It was thanks to his persistence that Michael was taken to hospital where he was diagnosed with meningitis after he fell ill in 2015
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Katy D's story
Thirty-six-year-old Katy, from Immingham in Lincolnshire, was suffering from severe headaches, but when she found herself unable to speak and with a loss of feeling in her arm her mother took her straight to A and E
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Sarah H's meningitis story
From watching fireworks with what she thought was just a bad cold, to a cardiac arrest, induced coma and failing organs all within a short period of time – Sarah, from Gillingham in Kent, was eventually diagnosed with bacterial meningitis