News & Stories
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Stories
Travis' story
Natalie’s young son Travis was sick and then developed cold hands and feet. After consulting her mum and ringing 111 he was rushed to hospital, where meningococcal meningitis and septicaemia was confirmed
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Mia H's meningitis story
Seventeen-year-old Mia, from Merriott in Somerset, had agonising leg pain, a headache and nausea in September. When this hadn’t cleared up after a few days she went to hospital, where viral meningitis was diagnosed. She tells her story here
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Norah's story
Lisa, from Bury in Lancashire, wasn’t sure if she would see her baby daughter Norah alive again when she handed her over to theatre staff. At just a few months old, Norah was already fighting meningitis for the second time
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Christine F's story
Fifty-one year old single mum Christine, from Ormskirk in Lancashire, became ill with meningococcal meningitis and septicaemia shortly after celebrating the new Millennium in 2000
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Sonia R's story
Sonia, 53, from Nottingham, was working as a full-time care assistant when she became ill. What started with vomiting was in fact pneumococcal meningitis and septicaemia and if Sonia hadn’t been found when she was and rapidly diagnosed and treated she wouldn’t be here today to tell her story
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Denise's story
Terrible headaches, stiff neck, vomiting - Denise didn’t know what was wrong with her. Luckily, doctors were able to quickly diagnose that she had contracted meningitis
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Alice M's story
When Jennifer put her baby to bed she was a healthy new-born. But when Alice woke in the night there was obviously something very wrong with her. Jennifer, from Sudbury in Suffolk, tells us her terrifying story
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Rachael's story
It’s been a tough few years for Rachael Jade since she contracted meningitis in 2012, but being invited to join a band has helped turn her life around
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Lydia W's story
Teenager Lydia, from Manchester, was preparing to sit her GCSEs in April 2017 when she experienced the worst headache of her life. Within days, she was in A&E. Lydia, 16, tells us what happened next
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Caspar's story
Sharon's baby had a temperature and was off his food. Then he started to display signs of being startled and looking like he was falling off a cliff. Eleven years on, Sharon, from Beaconsfield in Buckinghamshire, tells the story of what happened to her son Caspar
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Declan C's story
Laura’s newborn baby son Declan was making a grunting sound and a strange cry. Fortunately, doctors realised straightaway what was wrong and put him on antibiotics
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Laura L's story
Laura hopes no family ever has to go through what she and her sister went through after their 72-year-old father fell ill with meningitis. It didn’t help that he lived thousands of miles away in Alicante, Spain