News & Stories
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Rita and Nancy's story
It was September 2016 and Rachael Holgate from Darlington should have been celebrating the birth of her new twin girls. Instead, she had an agonising wait to see if the girls would pull through after being diagnosed with viral meningitis
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Xavier's story
Lynn’s 2-year-old son Xavier became ill with what turned out to be meningococcal septicaemia in January 1999. After a battle he survived, but the disease left him with severe and life-changing after-effects
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Joe B's story
Cherelle and Chris’ 5-month-old son Joe had a very high temperature and was vomiting. Cherelle knew something was seriously wrong with him and stood her ground with doctors to get tests done
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Sadie's story
Laura and John’s young twin daughter Sadie had just started nursery and was picking up lots of bugs, so her parents weren’t initially too worried when she became ill. But as her condition deteriorated they quickly sought medical advice
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Denise L's story
Denise, 54, learnt the hard way that meningitis is no respecter of your age and can affect anyone, when she became ill with pneumococcal meningitis earlier this year
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Ebonie's story
Nadia was on a night out when her instinct told her that her young daughter Ebonie needed her. The 7-year-old had developed a high temperature and as Nadia watched, a rash began to develop
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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