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Vanessa Vicente's full story
  • Brazil
  • Bacterial meningitis
  • Baby 0-1
Vanessa Vicente's story Vanessa Vincente is running the 2025 London Marathon for Meningitis Research Foundation in memory of...
Lucas Martin's full story
  • UK
  • Bacterial meningitis
  • Young Adult 20-25
Lucas Martin's story Lucas Martin, from the Isle of Man, was known affectionately by his family as Looky. In September 20...

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Katelyn Lazare's full story
  • UK
  • Bacterial meningitis, Group B meningococcal (MenB)
  • Teenager
Katelyn Lazare's story Katelyn was just fifteen years old when she lost her life to this cruel disease...
Scott Stillman's full story
  • USA
  • Unknown meningitis and septicaemia (sepsis) type, Viral
  • Adult 25-59
Scott Stillman's story In August 2021, our daughter Lucy returned to St Lawrence University in upstate New York for her sec...
Parker Oconnor's full story
  • UK
  • Viral
  • Baby 0-1
Parker Oconnor's story My son had viral meningitis at fourteen weeks old. ...
Dina Simei  Román Díaz 's full story
  • South America
  • Fungal
  • Adult 25-59
Dina Simei Román Díaz 's story Soy Dina Simei Román Díaz Psicologa, pero antes que todo una mujer de fe...
Kaya Luna Aisake 's full story
  • Australia
  • Bacterial meningitis, Group B meningococcal (MenB)
  • Child 6-12
Kaya Luna Aisake 's story The life of Kaya Luna (so far): For eight years, I’ve cried on my daughter’s birthday. ...
Leanne Smith's full story
  • UK
  • Bacterial meningitis, Viral
Leanne Smith's story Social media influencer and mum of two, Leanne Smith, also known as Busy...
Louise Davies's full story
  • UK
  • Bacterial meningitis
  • Teenager
Louise Davies' story I contracted meningitis in March 1989 when I was only nineteen years old...
Sylvia Djawahir's full story
  • Indonesia
  • Tuberculosis (TB)
  • Young Adult 20-25
Sylvia Djawahir's story I am 58 years old by the time I am writing this story...
Ludovic Peze's full story
  • France
  • Bacterial meningitis, Group B meningococcal (MenB)
  • Young Adult 20-25
Ludovic Peze's story In my case, the symptoms were that I didn’t feel very good, I had a low fever and my throat wa...
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