News & Stories
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Claire A's story
What started as a normal Monday morning with what she thought was just a cold took a very nasty turn and by Tuesday Claire, from Huntingdon in Cambridgeshire, was going downhill fast. Claire, 43, tells us what happened next
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Luke T's story
Luke, from Caversham, is following in the footsteps of his fundraising mum and running in this year’s Reading Half Marathon to raise money for Meningitis Now
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Katie P's story
It was Christmas Eve 1990 and Katie P started to feel very unwell. She quickly went downhill, but luckily her mum knew what the symptoms were because a friend’s son had recently had the disease. Katie, from Grimsby, tells her story
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Zoe's story
Zoe, from Newmarket, was a long way from home on a trip to Bali in June 2017 when she started to feel very ill. Her symptoms worsened until she ended up in hospital in a medically induced coma
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Joanne S' story
Jenny’s baby daughter Joanne had been unwell for several days, but this was initially put down to teething. Then a chest infection was diagnosed but when Joanne’s condition deteriorated, Jenny, from Ilkeston in Derbyshire, rushed her straight to hospital
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Leo W's story
Rebecca W, from Chesterfield in Derbyshire, had no idea her baby son had contracted meningitis because the only symptom he had was rapid breathing
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Nancy's story
One of our young supporters, Molly, from the south of London, lost her youngest sister Nancy to meningitis in 2015
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Layla-Rose's story
Six-year-old Layla Rose Ermenekli tragically died after contracting meningitis in 2017. Last year, an inquest ruled that her death could have been avoided
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James V's story
James was a student at the University of Portsmouth when he fell ill. He spent ten days battling meningitis but luckily went on to make a full recovery
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Amelia H's story
Four years ago, Lauren’s perfect pregnancy ended with a perfect baby – but almost immediately she knew something was wrong
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Harry C's story
Little Harry had been off colour but seemed well enough to go on holiday with his family to Menorca. However, his condition deteriorated shortly after arrival and he was airlifted to intensive care facilities in Majorca
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Caitlin's story
Nineteen-year-old Caitlin, from Sutton-in-Ashfield in Nottinghamshire, contracted meningitis as a baby. Since then she has had mental health and communication difficulties, but is now determined to make a difference and raise awareness. She tells her story here