{"id":772949,"date":"2026-09-16T22:18:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T22:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/772949\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T22:18:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T22:18:16","slug":"man-begins-100-mile-anfield-run-for-meningitis-b-awareness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/772949\/","title":{"rendered":"Man begins 100-mile Anfield run for meningitis B awareness"},"content":{"rendered":"

A man is hoping his 100-mile charity run will spur more students to be vaccinated against meningitis B following the death of his friend. <\/p>\n

Shaun McEntee, who only completed his first half marathon last year, is running from Kidderminster Harriers FC’s Aggborough Stadium to Anfield, home of Liverpool FC.<\/p>\n

He hopes to raise \u00a35,000 for Meningitis Now following the death of family friend and Liverpool fan Aaron Mills, who died from meningitis in January<\/a> in Kidderminster during a break from his studies at Liverpool John Moores University.<\/p>\n

“I’ll get through one way or another,” said McEntee, who set off earlier. “There’s too much support, there’s too many people that I’d be letting down if I [don’t].”<\/p>\n

Although babies have routinely been vaccinated against meningitis B for more than a decade<\/a>, Aaron’s age group missed out.<\/p>\n

Following Aaron’s death, his parents Anthony and Deniz campaigned for a catch-up vaccine – and in June, the government announced a one-off programme<\/a> for one million young people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man is hoping his 100-mile charity run will spur more students to be vaccinated against meningitis B…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":772950,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[59,102,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-772949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-gb","tag-health","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=772949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/772950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}