‘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.

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

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.

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