The dangers of meningitis, its symptoms and the vaccines are well-publicised. But there are many after-effects and long-term problems for survivors of the deadly disease that you may not be as readily aware of.
Teddy Townsend suffered meningococcal septicaemia when he was two years old. The disease left him fighting for his life.
He went to nursery on a March Monday morning from his home in Shurdington near Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, and returned feeling unwell. 'When he came home he was a little off-colour,' explains his mother, Corrine. 'When he went to bed he was running a temperature and we thought he just had a bug.'
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