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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Eleanor Ovens

London teen horrified to discover itchy eye was killer brain infection

A teen who found she kept rubbing her eye was horrified when she learned it was a killer infection triggered by a cold - and needed brain surgery.

Sophie Bell had been suffering from a cold and daily headaches for around a month in October, which left her bedbound in debilitating pain.

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