Perth’s worst suburbs for child vaccination revealed
The state government has named Perth’s four worst performing suburbs for childhood vaccination rates following an announcement that immunisation would become one of its top priorities over the next four years. Cottesloe, Claremont, Fremantle and Mundaring were reported as having some of the lowest vaccination rates for children under five years old while regionally, Augusta, […]
Price paid too high not to fund vaccines
Meningitis Centre chairman Bruce Langoulant interacts with his daughter Ashleigh Langoulant who has cerebral palsey as a result of pneumococcal disease.
Fiona Wood’s world-first experiment to help brave Robbie
A Perth toddler has survived a deadly bacterial infection, thanks to the extraordinary efforts of medical staff to save not just his life but also his limbs. The parents of two-year-old Robbie Buchan have told of his amazing survival from septicaemia after developing meningococcal disease when he was just five months old. In a world-first […]
Far Northern parents unaware of Meningococcal B vaccine
Pharmacist manager at Cairns discount pharmacy Erin Treston with the Bexsero vaccine, which protects people from Meningococcal strain B. PICTURE: ANNA ROGERS PARENTS are largely unaware of a vaccine which protects against a potentially deadly strain of Meningococcal. The first confirmed case of Meningococcal strain B was recently detected in the Cairns region but Queensland […]
Ferrari’s James Allison loses wife to meningitis
Ferrari Technical Director James Allison has returned home to Britain following the death of his wife, Rebecca. Allison, who was in the process of returning from Australia, has returned straight home to Britain after receiving word of the passing of his wife. Ferrari were returning home from a promising opening round that saw the team […]
Miracle twins for meningitis survivor Danielle Weymark
There is nothing that Danielle Weymark? has allowed severe disability, more than 70 operations and constant pain to stop her from doing, including becoming a champion equestrian – and, now, a mother to twins. The meningococcal meningitis septicaemia survivor lost much of her left arm, right hand and parts of both feet to the rare disease, contracted when […]
Meningococcal disease in a school child in Western Australia
The Department of Health today reported that a school-aged child is recovering in hospital after having been diagnosed with meningococcal disease. Meningococcal disease is an uncommon, life-threatening illness caused by a bacterial infection of the blood and/or the membranes that line the spinal cord and brain, and occasionally of other sites, such as large joints. […]
Funeral date set for teenage meningitis victim from Mold
THE funeral of a 17-year-old who died suddenly from meningitis will take place this week. Daniel Bailey, a pupil at Alun School, Mold, died at Wrexham Maelor Hospital after he developed meningococcal septicaemia. Headteacher Jane Cooper paid a heartfelt tribute to the year 12 student, of Church Lane, Rhydymwyn, who was studying for his A-levels […]
Girl, 4, dies from meningitis just hours after ‘being sent away from hospital with tonsillitis’
A grieving father has told of how his four-year-old daughter died from meningitis just hours after being sent away from hospital with ‘tonsillitis’. Gracie Foster was waiting to undergo a tonsillectomy at Chesterfield Royal Hospital in Calow, Derbyshire, when she started being sick and feeling ‘sleepy’. Doctors diagnosed her with tonsillitis, before cancelling the operation […]
Parents capture their son’s last moments to warn others about meningitis
WARNING! THIS STORY CONTAINS SOME DISTRUBING AND EMOTIONAL IMAGES! THE parents of a seven-year-old boy have released pictures of their son’s dying breaths as a warning to others about meningitis. Claire and Mark Timmins’ son Mason died of the disease two weeks before Christmas in 2013 and needed a life support machine towards the end […]
