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Sarah Barrett & Benedict Tetzlaff-Deas

Mum issues heartbreaking warning as daughter dies six hours after meningitis symptoms

A heartbroken mother has warned parents to learn the signs of meningitis after her daughter died just six hours after first showing symptoms.

Siobhan O’Carroll from Ireland had gone to the hospital for a check up after feeling sick during pregnancy when she recieved a call from her husband later the same evening about her four-year-old daughter Aoibhe’s sudden illness, reports the Irish Mirror.

Having only spoken to her child a few hours earlier when she "told them that I loved them", she quickly found herself powerless as Aoibhe’s condition took a turn for the worse.

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