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'Within a day he was clinically brain dead'
A woman whose son died of meningitis warns of the speed with which it can kill.
Claire Timmins's son, Mason, was "clinically brain dead" within a day of her noticing he was ill.
She is campaigning for the government to give the meningitis B vaccine to all children aged under 11.
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