Calls for campaign to highlight meningitis strain which claimed life of healthy young woman 

Gemma McGee died due to severe meningococcal septicaemia.

A coroner has called for a public awareness campaign to highlight the dangers of a particularly lethal strain of meningitis and septicaemia following an inquest into the sudden death of a 24-year-old woman.

Dr Myra Cullinane made the recommendation for increased information about meningococcal W (MenW) at the conclusion of an inquest at Dublin Coroner’s Court into the death of Gemma McGee, who died on August 4, 2018, within 36 hours of falling ill.