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Labour Party’s Alan Kelly urges Health Minister Simon Harris to ‘get real’...
ALAN Kelly is urging the Minister for Health Simon Harris “to get real” and make Meningitis B vaccinations more affordable.The call came from the Labour Party’s health spokesperson as it emerged the...
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Tiny 1lb 5oz baby who was born the size of a SYRINGE and nearly died five...
A BABY born weighing just 1lb 5oz has survived despite doctors telling his parents he would die on five separate occasions after contracting deadly meningitis and sepsis.Hanna Rose, 25, from Worksop,...
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Mum’s agony as daughter, 10, dies of meningitis after A&E docs said her...
A GIRL, 10, died of meningitis after doctors misdiagnosed her with an ear injection, her family have said.Abbigayle Dipietro died in hospital in Fort Wayne, Indiana, US, after suffering a seizure and...
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Heartbroken mum of Meath girl who died from sepsis after contracting...
THE heartbroken mum of a young girl who died from sepsis after contracting meningitis said she was “wiped out within hours”.Kayla Carey, from Meath, passed away after becoming unwell at a birthday...
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Girl, 4, dies 24 hours after doctors realised tummy bug was actually meningitis
A LITTLE girl died just 24 hours after being diagnosed with a rare form of meningitis – after her symptoms were mistaken for a tummy bug.Four-year-old Evie May was acting like her “happy, normal self”...
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Brit Instagram model backpacker, 25, has emergency spinal tap as Thai doctors...
A BRITISH Instagram model had an emergency spinal tap as Thai doctors are struggling to diagnose her mystery illness that has left her stranded.Rebekah Fulton, 25, is currently in hospital in Phuket...
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What is meningitis, how do you get it, what are the signs and symptoms and...
MENINGITIS is often mistaken as the flu or even a hangover – but knowing the symptoms of the potentially deadly disease could save your life.Meningitis can affect anyone, but is most common in babies,...
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Baby boy left brain damaged after doctors ‘mistook meningitis for chest...
A BABY boy was left brain damaged after bungling doctors misdiagnosed meningitis — dismissing his symptoms as a chest infection, it’s claimed.The parents of 11-month-old Freddie O’Driscoll rushed him...
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Little girl struck by ‘worst case of meningitis’ defies the odds to see and...
A BRAVE tot who was struck by the “worst case” of meningitis that docs had seen has defied the odds to see and smile again.Kia Gott, 2, from Bradford, spent months in hospital battling an extremely...
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More than a million young people at risk of deadly meningitis – after NHS...
MILLIONS of young Brits have been put at risk of deadly meningitis after an NHS blunder meant that they didn’t get a jab reminder.A meningitis vaccine was introduced back in August 2015, designed to...
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Baby almost died as she was struck down with meningitis and sepsis on dream...
A TRAUMATISED mum has told of her holiday from hell after her baby girl nearly died from meningitis during a dream trip to Thailand.Elisha Robinson, 24, touched down in sunny Phuket in October last...
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We thought our daughter had flu… 36 hours later she died of meningitis
A HEARTBROKEN dad has spoken of the moment his beloved daughter suddenly passed away after catching meningitis.Sara Stelzer, 18, had just started studying at university when she started complaining of...
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Meningitis doesn’t just kill babies… I lost my legs to it at 51 after...
WHEN mum-of-one Sarah Hayward started feeling “strange” after a night out with her pals, she wondered if she’d had her drink spiked.But within 24 hours, she was being rushed to hospital in a...
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Sepsis is bigger threat than meningitis, parents warned, as cases soar – the...
SEPSIS is more rife and as deadly as meningitis, parents are being warned – as cases in youngsters soar.Hospital admissions in England for the killer condition have more than doubled in three years,...
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My baby girl was killed by a cough – I screamed in horror as doctors tried to...
SCREAMING in horror, mum Charlotte Cooper watched as her worst nightmare played out in front of her.Her tiny baby girl was lying lifeless as doctors desperately tried to save her.Mum Charlotte Cooper...
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My baby is brain damaged from meningitis – all because NHS won’t test...
A MUM has been left devastated after her baby was left brain-damaged from meningitis – all because the NHS won’t test for a common bug.Bethany Ford, 23, tested positive for group B strep when she went...
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My toes turned black and were amputated after a ’bout of flu’ turned out to...
A MUM had her toes amputated as they turned black – after mistaking the signs of deadly sepsis for a bout of ‘flu’.Ruth Kent, 53, started shivering and aching for a few days last November but brushed...
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Doctors save newborn baby’s life by dunking her head in bucket of ice cold...
DOCTORS saved a new-born baby whose heart rate had risen dangerously by dunking her head in a bucket of ice cold water.They took the drastic action to try to shock 12-day-old Holly Hutchinson’s heart...
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RTE journalist Claire Byrne reveals she was given last rites and almost died...
RTE journalist Claire Byrne has revealed how she nearly died from meningitis as a child and told how her parents stood over her bed while she given the last rites.The 44-year-old spent a month in...
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From meningitis to freshers flu – 9 things every student needs to know ahead...
THE first week of uni is supposed to be about having fun, making new friends and, of course, getting a bit boozy (sorry mum and dad).So the last thing you need is to get sick, putting a dampener on...
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