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Gemma Lessells |
2015-12-09T08:00:18.627 |
As an ambassador for the Meningitis research foundation who has campaigned tirelessly for the bexsero vaccine, I don'... |
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Doreen Bontems |
2015-12-09T08:05:10.927 |
I am so sorry for your loss. Heartbreaking and well done you for doing what you can to ensure this simple test is car... |
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Laura toman |
2015-12-09T08:06:21.537 |
I have been affected by strep b and can understand but to have lost a child over a simple swab is unimaginable. Fortu... |
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Lynda Coulter |
2015-12-09T08:04:58.487 |
God bless ! \r\nI knew I had strep B when i fell pregnant . I told midwife and consultant but fell on deaf ears !! ... |
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Nora cavanagh |
2015-12-09T08:08:31.783 |
I have 2 daughter hopefully going to have children why aren't we swapping essential government it's our future gener... |
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Mark Douglas |
2015-12-09T08:16:12.393 |
I want to help as I lost my little daughter six years ago and I don't want to see more women suffer like my wife did ... |
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Amy taggart |
2015-12-09T08:27:39.85 |
I also wasn't tested and my little girl was lucky however I was not as I developed septicaemia and was in hospital fo... |
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Ann Landels |
2015-12-09T08:35:13.69 |
Would be inexpensive and so easy to diagnose this either during pregnancy or during labour. The heartbreak must be d... |
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Cheryl lacriarde |
2015-12-09T08:40:20.44 |
I had group b strep and passed it onto my son. St georges hospital in tooting refused to induce me, so I gave birth 5... |
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Valerie Aikman |
2015-12-09T08:45:26.643 |
This is shocking that it is something so simple to be done to avoid such a tragedy. |
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Linda Johnston |
2015-12-09T08:53:21.397 |
This test should be a matter of routine, so many people unaware of the danger strep b can cause and the devastation i... |
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Felicity Maddison |
2015-12-09T08:54:49.287 |
I recently found out that I carry Group B Strep and only because I had a swab due to recurring thrush during pregnanc... |
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Sarah Ingram |
2015-12-09T08:55:53.783 |
I feel dreadful for this poor family and desperately sad that his death was preventable by a simple test. Please let'... |
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Theresa Gordon |
2015-12-09T09:07:26.3 |
Routine Swab tests for strep B should be carried out to prevent this ever happening again. This story is heartbreaking. |
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Angela bowkett |
2015-12-09T09:11:03.957 |
This is such a sad story, let's hope some good comes out of it, this should b a routine test. So sorry for your loss.xxx |
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Grace Coyle |
2015-12-09T09:21:43.893 |
This should be compulsory in Ireland too..... |
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Paola Pacchiana |
2015-12-09T09:31:54.987 |
It should be compulsory |
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karen graham |
2015-12-09T09:33:40.313 |
My daughter carried strep B on my first grandson and was born not breathing,thankfully they brought him bk but was in... |
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Mary Elizabeth Curran |
2015-12-09T09:44:36.66 |
This is heartbreaking such a beautiful little baby and to think £11 would have saved his life if the test was compuls... |
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Jacky Ackerman |
2015-12-09T10:13:03.237 |
If this is so easy, I cannot understand why it isn't compulsory . This needs to be introduced now! |
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Tricia queen |
2015-12-09T10:17:38.41 |
I an currently 31 weeks pregnant and i gave group b strep only found out because i had swabs done for thrush and bact... |
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Angela Dixon |
2015-12-09T10:31:12.49 |
I am so sorry to hear of your devastation and loss. Signed and shared xxx |
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Jordane Bell |
2015-12-09T11:04:42.487 |
I think is something that should be taken serious. Read about a woman who lost her little boy all because the NHS did... |
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Jamie McIntyre |
2015-12-09T11:43:38.08 |
It was picked up in my wife when first boy born. They knew about it for our second boy and gave her antibiotics. Why ... |
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Michelle chapman |
2015-12-09T11:56:29.597 |
Something as simple as a swab to save a babies life and a mother's heartache for life |
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Sharon Eccles |
2015-12-09T12:05:27.517 |
Now petition the government and NHS England |
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Gemma Trestain |
2015-12-09T12:15:48.66 |
Sigbed on b3half of all women to ensure any carrying Strep B but are unaware can be safe in the knowledge that they w... |
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Catherine Manfield |
2015-12-09T12:21:04.377 |
As a mum that has Group B Strep, that was discovered in my 3rd baby when I went in to premature labour at 24 weeks, t... |
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Sharon talbot |
2015-12-09T13:05:29.583 |
Nearly lost our precious grandson to this disease, we were lucky others won't be |
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Becky O'Connor |
2015-12-09T13:45:03.147 |
My baby boy was born with the help of forseps , they took a swap of my placenta as I had been unwell during labour, I... |
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Susan Chadwick |
2015-12-09T13:57:06.583 |
My daughter nearly lost her little girl, my granddaughter because of strep b, the midwives tried to tell my daughter ... |
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Elizabeth Stroud |
2015-12-09T14:15:19.83 |
My great nephew had exactly this condition. Fortunately he survived but it was touch and go for a few days. It was a ... |
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Natalie Spencer |
2015-12-09T14:53:57.1 |
I am in utter shock about this and yet it is another appalling thing to happen on behalf on the NHS. This should be d... |
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Julie Atkinson |
2015-12-09T15:52:21.83 |
I went through the same although I was lucky and my son survived. A simple test would have prevented all the heartach... |
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Sharon Alexander |
2015-12-09T16:26:49.787 |
I have strep b and never understood what it really ment till I had my son. This is so dangerous. All preg woman shoul... |
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Laura holland |
2015-12-09T16:30:27.923 |
Hope this is tested for routinely never understood why it isn't. |
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Leighanne allen |
2015-12-09T16:41:17.44 |
I always had sb wen pregnant with my last baby. But I was lucky enough he didn't get it. Even tho they knew I had i... |
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Alicia Jaxkman |
2015-12-09T17:33:01.347 |
This is a no brainier!! Carry out the test as routine! |
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Zena ward |
2015-12-09T17:44:53.987 |
My grandson almost died from this infection, He contracted meningitis, he was so ill at two weeks old, but thank God ... |
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Lucy Roberts |
2015-12-09T19:04:58.207 |
I am truly sorry for your loss as a mum of two I cannot comprehend how this must feel especially when it was not nece... |
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Cassie Pash |
2015-12-09T19:10:31.287 |
This brought tears to my eyes as I read this awful story. I have a little boy just two weeks older and I cannot imagi... |
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tara mohammad |
2015-12-09T19:16:56.77 |
I was diabitice with my son, thanx to God i been checked in Bradford hospital , and I was clear from it |
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Ros Duffy |
2015-12-09T19:17:32.02 |
The NHS should make pregnant Mums aware of the possibility of bacterial meningitis being present in their bith canal,... |
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Angela Moore |
2015-12-09T20:22:40.847 |
It is imperative that this is made a priority, I was with my daughter throughout her labour and it was horrific to wi... |
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heidi fitzpatrick |
2015-12-09T20:29:06.16 |
I had heard of this however as a mother of 5 and a grandmother of 9 one sadly born too soon that the nhs is failing c... |
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Eden Milne |
2015-12-09T20:31:22.237 |
I was lucky enough to have this test during pregnancy and found out I was a carrier. I reckon the only reason I was t... |
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susan mcgrane |
2015-12-09T21:19:46.333 |
I was diagnosed with group b strep at 34 weeks when I went into early labour. Its a simple swab test that has the pot... |
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Sarah Douglas |
2015-12-09T21:19:55.41 |
Oh gosh...but you are an amazing mummy to fight for other mummy's in the hope other babies are saved. Thank you for ... |
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Hayley woloszczynska |
2015-12-09T21:30:51.49 |
This isn't something that we should wait for, this has to happen now. Live is so precious and it shouldn't be taken ... |
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Alison Welch |
2015-12-09T21:37:50.363 |
This really upset me,please make the changes to avoid this devastation happening to anyone else. |