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meningitis & septicaemia can kill in hours!

People who are faced with meningitis and septicaemia have to act fast to help save a life.

Counting the Cost

Counting the Cost

10 May 2011

Counting the Cost reveals the shocking lifelong costs of surviving meningitis and septicaemia and calls on 
Government to pursue the widest and earliest implementation of vaccines to prevent the diseases.
Counting the Cost of Meningitis is a comprehensive analysis of the lifetime impact of the diseases on illustrative case studies:

  • Peter, who was 18 months old when he was struck down with septicaemia which left him with multiple amputations and behavioural difficulties
  • Emma, who was three years old when she became ill with meningitis which left her brain damaged, deaf and partially blind    

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Melanie Hook

Pneumococcal meningitis

Pneumococcal meningitis at 33

The doctors found she was paralysed below the neck