Sepsis is bigger risk than meningitis, parents warned, as cases among youngsters rocket

Sepsis is bigger risk than meningitis, parents warned, as cases among youngsters rocket

By / Science / Monday, 22 July 2019 06:17

Hospital admissions for deadly sepsis have risen by one third in young people in two years, NHS figures show, leading experts to warn parents that it is now a bigger threat than meningitis.

New NHS Digital data shows for all ages, cases have doubled from 350,344 recorded hospital admissions with a first or second diagnosis of sepsis in 2017/18, up from 169,125 two years earlier.

 

Read more at Telegraph.

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