A woman who had all her limbs amputated due to meningitis B has called for vaccines to be subsidised by the government so people can be more protected against the strain. Currently, the NHS and Jersey ...
Meningococcal disease kills 10% to 15% of the people who get it, often within 24 hours of the first symptoms. This puts an ...
TULSA, OK -- Many Oklahomans are concerned about what the future holds for Jeremiah Mitchell. A triple amputee shared his story with students at Metro Christian of how he's overcome the odds to become ...
I know firsthand what meningococcal meningitis can do to a body. I contracted it at 9 months old. I survived the illness and now live with severe scarring on my skin, along with amputation of some ...
Precisely 8 years after contracting meningitis and meningococcal septicaemia, Italian mountaineer and multiple limb amputee Andrea Lanfri successfully made two ascents of Aconcagua, at 6961 meters the ...
Penelope Vidal-Walsh and her parents have endured a harrowing few months following a shocking discovery about a rash. In what is every parent's worst fear, the Southport family realised that what ...
McGarry, 23, thought she’d “sleep it off” — but it was meningitis, which quickly spiraled into a severe infection that caused two cardiac arrests and the life-threatening infection sepsis The ...