‘Parents of newborns should know all the symptoms of meningitis’

The mother of a little boy who survived meningitis says parents of newborns should know all the warning signs.

Lisa In from Ballyphehane, Cork, and her three-year-old son, Jamie, were in University College Cork yesterday for the arrival of meningitis awareness roadshow.

Two Irish meningitis charities — Meningitis Research Foundation and Act for Meningitis — had brought 248 teddy bears to illustrate the number who get the disease each year in Ireland.