'i Feel So Grateful To Be Alive': Meningitis Survivor Speaks To The Bbc

Twenty-one-year-old Annabelle Mackay has spoken to nan BBC astir her acquisition of surviving a meningitis infection.

The University of Kent rule student believes she whitethorn person contracted it connected 5 March astatine Club Chemistry, aliases perchance connected an evening earlier this erstwhile she was retired astatine a different venue.

So far, location person been 29 cases of meningitis linked to nan outbreak, pinch a vaccination programme being rolled retired for students.

"I consciousness truthful grateful to beryllium live and to beryllium here. I'm still dealing pinch nan aftereffects now, but I deliberation I conscionable request to attraction connected my betterment and getting amended and backmost to myself," Mackay told nan BBC.

Read much present astir why this outbreak has dispersed truthful quickly, and publication much present astir the symptoms of nan condition.