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I’m so sorry for this lady.
My mum passed away from this in 1991. She felt sick in the early hours of the morning and had passed by lunch time. I remember having to take antibiotics. If you suspect you have this do not waste any time getting checked.

🙏 Initial thoughts are with the students and staff at University of Kent, hoping the outbreak is contained soon 🙏🥰

🥹 Initial response to this news is just devastating... My thoughts are with the families of those who have lost loved ones and I pray the outbreak is contained soon 🙏🥰🥰

So sad. Sorry for your loss. I had it when I was 18. Was in ICU for 2 weeks. It's horrendous!

Poor mum...this is heartbreaking. Your son was beautiful.

I am so sorry for your loss, I almost lost a child in the the late 80’s to this awful disease we were so fortunate to he was treated in specialist Isolation unit for several days on life support and please do take this seriously it can cause life changing problems too for those who do survive.

Thank you For the latest update on Meningitis outbreak . Very much appreciated Thank you very much ITV Good Morning

In the US, the HIB, or the Haemophilus Influenza B vaccine for meningitis was developed and given to children from the age of 18 months up with boosters. It was publicly given 2 years after the death of my baby brother from the disease, who literally was happy healthy and perfectly fine, just a little sniffly, one minute~ the whole family had some version of a mild cold~and gravely ill the next... We all survived, all placed on antibiotics, but only for the most vulnerable, an infant under the age of one (he was nine and a half months) was it deadly. From the first moment of symptoms (intermittent 'irritable' crying, slight fever which turned into a sub temperature quite quickly, and in a pre-verbal child who cannot tell you what hurts....we just noticed he kept throwing his head back (characteristic of the common symptom of neck pain) until he was made comatose in one of the most famous teaching hospitals in the world that happens to be in the next county.... He was given every treatment,  he had four specialists, one was also a researcher who was trying to find some combination of medications that would do the trick, nurses would tell my mother instead of sleeping he would still be working in his lab, just to try to save my brother. But his little body, after fighting so hard for 16 days.... Could not fight anymore.. I remember like it was yesterday.

My heart goes out to this mother and to all the parents, families and friends in the UK now dealing with this outbreak... My prayers are with them all.

Devastating

So there are basically two cohorts that are the most at risk groups for this disease - babies/toddlers and teenagers/young people in university and the government decided to only give the meningitis B vaccine to the one group but not to the other group? How does that make any sense?

I think people need to understand the difference between viral and bacterial meningitis (bacterial being the serious one that needs immediate medical intervention).
Meningitis (the viral kind) has always been prevalent at universities. It certainly was when I was a student 25 years ago.

Chilling - but what is the precise origin of the meningus?

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Dont stand together in the queue meningitis spreads through close contact!!

Why is Susanna smiling while commenting.  Sick!  Even for one life destroyed by this disease.

Its wrong needs to be avaliable on nhs

YES IN-DEED.. WHY O WHY IS EVERYONE IN THE UK NOT VACCINATED.???..
THIS IS THE REAL QUESTION THAT REMAINS SO UNANSWERED BY C0V1D.. EVERYONE NEEDS 2B HEAVILY VACCINATED.. NOW.!!!...,
COME ON KIDS PROTECT GRANNY, MASK UP, STAND 6FT APART, AND DON'T FORGET YA SUPER BOOSTER.!!..

Sorry this is making us think this is all dangerous to children. We are ALL in danger.

Meningitis is starting to spread. If you think you have it get to A@E or ring NHS 111.
Here are symptoms. Please copy them.
Symptoms of meningitis and sepsis include:

a high temperature
cold hands and feet
vomiting
confusion
breathing quickly
muscle and joint pain
pale, mottled or blotchy skin (this may be harder to see on brown or black skin)
spots or a rash (this may be harder to see on brown or black skin)
headache
a stiff neck
a dislike of bright lights
being very sleepy or difficult to wake
fits (seizures)
Babies may also:

refuse feeds
be irritable
have a high-pitched cry
have a stiff body or be floppy or unresponsive
have a bulging soft spot on the top of their head
Someone with meningitis or sepsis can get a lot worse very quickly.