Meningitis outbreak in Rottingdean
- Title
- Meningitis outbreak in Rottingdean
- Genre
- News report; Interview
- TX Date
- 28 Dec 1994
- Year of production
- 1994
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- Duration
- 00:02:05
- Description
- Dominic Waghorn reports on the case of five year-old Emma Harris, from Rottingdean, Sussex, who died on 26/12/94 at a hospital in Brighton after a Christmas Day outbreak of meningitis. Her friend, Alexandra Yates, is desperately ill in Guys Hospital in London. Includes reaction from her headmaster, Robert Smith; grandfather of Emma Harris, Neville Palmer; Dr Brendan O’Connor, East Sussex Health Authority. (Alexandra Yates later died in hospital).
- Contributors
- Dominic Waghorn; Robert Smith; Neville Palmer; Brendan O’Connor
- Keywords
- Deaths; Children (age group); Diseases; Sussex; Meningitis; Rottingdean; Emma Harris; Alexandra Yates
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