Meningitis touches many families across Australia every year.
Below are personal stories from Australians who have faced meningitis.
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Finn The Great!
This is Finn’s story told through the eyes of his mother Sarah. He contracted Meningococcal B...
Read moreOur boy Deano, forever in our hearts
The weekend was as busy and chaotic as every other. We have three children – Josie...
Read moreKristen’s University Nightmare
My brush with Meningococcal Meningitis started on Anzac Day, 25 April 1998 at the age of...
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Cooper’s story, at 5 weeks old
A team from the city children's hospital came to collect Cooper and took him to their...
Read moreMum’s perspective on pneumococcal
Roger complained of a headache one night at about 8.00pm as he was on his way...
Read moreMikayla’s meningococcal story
When we got to the hospital I was taken to intensive care, what I saw is...
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Teagan’s Hib meningitis story
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I can only thank the GP for her action and that she did not dismiss my...
Read moreHollee’s Story
THE last time I saw my sister Hollee was at the Fremantle train station. Alannis Morrisette...
Read moreNathaniel’s Pneumococcal Story – Regional Australia
In the end we were flown to a strange interstate city where we knew no one...
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Lily’s Story
My beautiful daughter Lily was ten and a half months old, a happy and healthy baby,...
Read moreRiley’s Pneumococcal Story
At 3am the doctor came in and confirmed that Riley had pneumococcal meningitis and outlined what...
Read moreChloe’s Viral Meningitis Story
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When Chloe was seen by the doctors in the early stages of the disease she was...
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My son was diagnosed with meningococcal twice
Our second experience with meningitis came when Kristian was two and a half years old. We...
Read moreCameron’s Pneumococcal Story
April 3 1996 changed our lives forever, it is the day that we lost our hopes...
Read moreLisa’s Story
What happened to me was one thing. Yet what has happened every day of my life...
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Holly Our Miracle Girl
Holly had left home bright and chirpy ready for a big day at daycare. But when...
Read moreA Young Doctor’s suspicion
Heather tells her story about her daughter Kylie who was only 4 months old at the...
Read moreMy little Fighter!
Vodine Lunt tells us how she almost lost her 3 week old baby to meningitis....
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Back from the brink!
Karen Perry tells us about how her hectic life came to a standstill one...
Read moreA Force to be reckoned with
Laura and Brett Sheehan gave birth to their first new born and everything was going well...
Read moreMum’s gut instinct
Kylie Fullard tells her story about the birth of her beautiful daughter Zaidee and how Kylie's...
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The little angel who keeps flapping his wings
Tristan Grimston has conquered so many battles in his very young life and he's not about...
Read moreThe night my life changed
Kirsten Pedersen is a single working mum who contracted bacterial meningitis late in 2015. Juggling a...
Read moreSurviving a rare form of fungal meningitis
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Tanya Orchard tells her brave story of recovering from a rare form of fungal meningitis. She...
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Heart wrenching start to life
Annabelle Fisk contracted the very rare Enterovirus Meningitis when she was a baby. Her mother Belinda...
Read moreNever Forgotten
Debbie Sutton relives the painful day her daughter Rebecca contracted the rare form of fungal meningitis...
Read moreA very Black Friday
Learn how Lauren Sims survived meningitis while heavily pregnant for her daughter Sophia....
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The Scariest day of my life
Alicia tells us about the worst day of her life when her little baby Miles was...
Read moreMy little mate.
Julie Duncan, mother of Geelong AFL star Mitch Duncan tells her story about the day she...
Read moreMy Sister Ashleigh
"Isn't she the picture of health!" My great grandad says about my sister Ashleigh. That very...
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The most terrifying day of my life
Mrs Maree Selwood, mother of West Coast Eagles' champion Adam Selwood, shares her story of when...
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