The risk is 38 times higher for babies under 12 months of age compared to children older than one and adults. Every year over 1000 babies in the UK get meningitis and septicaemia, and one in ten die from the illness.
Of those fortunate enough to survive, about a quarter are left with life-altering effects that can be as severe as brain damage, deafness and cerebral palsy.
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