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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