News & Stories
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Kaylan C’s story
Little Kaylan, from Currie in Midlothian, developed a burning temperature and was referred to hospital because he was so young
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Sarah and Lois’s stories
Meningitis has struck Helen’s family twice – once with devastating consequences when it took her sister Sarah’s life and then again last year when her baby daughter Lois contracted viral meningitis at just eight days old
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Kyra's story
Vickie’s young daughter Kyra, from Feltham in Middlesex, was a beautiful, happy little girl one day but just two days later meningitis has stolen her life. Vickie tells their story here in support of the campaign to widen use of the MenB vaccine
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Finn R's story
Finn was two-and-a-half years old when he contracted meningococcal septicaemia in June 2011
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Alfie's story
Alfie fell ill with sickness and stomach pains and was initially diagnosed with a minor throat infection. But the youngster had contracted the far more serious menB, which was to rob him of his life just a day later. Mum Joanne, from Thornton-Cleveleys in Lancashire, tells their sad story
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Abbie’s story
An unusual cry alerted Gillian Marshall that something was not quite right with her 13-day-old baby girl
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Bella R’s story
Bella had been suffering cold like symptoms but on the 28 December her condition deteriorated as she began vomiting, developing a fever and rapid breathing
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Michaela H’s story
In June 2015, 19-year-old Michaela set off for what she thought would be the summer of a lifetime, working on the little island of Zakynthos (Zante) in Greece
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Georgia S’s story
At first, Lauren thought her eight-year-old daughter Georgia, from Livingston in West Lothian, was coming down with conjunctivitis
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Matthew L’s story
Trembling, a temperature, cold hands and feet and vomiting first alerted Gemma Lessells, of Fife, that there was something very wrong with her little boy, Matthew
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Matilda H’s story
One month before her first birthday Matilda had a high temperature, was off her food and seemed out of character
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Isla R’s story
It took three visits to hospital before 19-month-old Isla was diagnosed with meningococcal group B meningitis and septicaemia