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Meningitis in your words

Keelan Christopher King's story

  • Location: UK
  • Categories: Meningococcal
  • Age: Toddler 1-3
  • Outcome: Bereavement
Keelan Christopher King
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My 18 month old son Keelan passed away on 22 February 2001 of meningococcal septicaemia.

The doctor came to house and checked keelan over and was told a virus. Within hours my son had passed away. The rash was the last symptom to appear while in A and E.

Bethan King
July 2007
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