News & Stories
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Stories
Riley G's story
Lisa’s young son Riley has been left with lifelong after-effects of meningitis but he never lets anything slow him down or stop him for long
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Balvinder S’s story
Balvinder, a British born mother of three, went to India to attend her cousin’s wedding. Whilst there though she became ill and is now in a coma fighting for her life due to partial organ failure and TB meningitis
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Jacqui's story
Having a doctor for a husband may have saved Jacqui’s life after she contracted meningitis at the age of 57
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Margaret S's story
Margaret had earache for several days before she visited her doctor’s surgery. That’s about the last thing she remembers before waking up in hospital, unaware that she’d contracted meningitis
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Conor's story
Eighteen-year-old Conor, from Belfast, has been unfortunate enough to contract meningitis not once but three times in the last seven years, without once developing the rash commonly associated with the disease
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Juley's story
Juley, from Sheffield, contracted pneumococcal meningitis in April 2017. Only quick action by her husband saved her life
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Poppy F's story
When three-year-old Poppy first fell ill her mother Emma didn’t suspect meningitis because there was no rash
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Alexia's story
Thirty-six year old Alexia, from Darley in North Yorkshire, was rushed into hospital at the beginning of October and diagnosed with severe bacterial meningitis and severe secondary acute reactive arthritis
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Madeleine's story
Madeleine was only two years old when a rash broke out on her body. Within hours, her parents were being told she only had a 50/50 chance of survival, her mother Lisa, from Oldham, tells her terrifying story.
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Barry P's story
Following routine cochlear implant surgery, Barry became ill not once, but twice with bacterial meningitis. He tells us his story
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Joanna A's story
Joanna has been left with lifelong after-effects from her meningitis and has spent the past four years relearning how to do absolutely everything
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Anthony A's story
Anthony had seemed fine on the Tuesday morning when he left home for work. That evening he had a high temperature, headache and was vomiting, but there was no reason to believe it was anything other than a nasty stomach bug