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Health chiefs urging people to check meningitis vaccination status

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Students have been urged to get the meningitis vaccine before the start of the new academic term. (Photo: Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)

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The UKHSA urges students to protect themselves from deadly meningitis. (Photo: Pixabay/Pexels)

Warning issued to students to protect themselves against meningitis

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Jordan Banjo’s baby Tre in hospital with sepsis

Girl wins lifetime payment of millions after hospital amputates all four of her limbs

Girl wins lifetime payment of millions after hospital amputates limbs

Meningitis is a serious infection of the membranes that surround the brain and spinal cord (Photo: Shutterstock)

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New study reveals lack of awareness from parents at spotting symptoms of meningi...

Sudent Charlotte Hannibal, 19, of Selston had both legs amputated below the knee and lost all the fingers on her left hand when she contracted menngitis last year. Charlottes friend William Fowkes and landlord and landlady Ian and Annette Edwards from the Queens Head at Riddings, in Alfreton, organised a live concert to raise funds for charity Meningitis Now, as well as towards the prosthetic limbs Charlotte will need in the future.

Brave meningitis survivor's warning to others
A whole community has rallied round to help a young meningitis survivor and the charity supporting her as she fights back from the disease.
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Kirkby mum raises awareness of meningitis

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