{"id":792504,"date":"2026-10-05T09:10:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T09:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/792504\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T09:10:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T09:10:15","slug":"harmonie-roses-mum-urges-young-people-to-get-menb-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/792504\/","title":{"rendered":"Harmonie-Rose&#8217;s mum urges young people to get MenB vaccine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Freya said Harmonie, who is now 12, &#8220;had gone from babbling and trying to climb out of her cot to a still and silent little baby&#8221; within a day. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After showing signs of a cold &#8220;a small purple mark appeared on her nose and within minutes it had spread across her whole body&#8221;, she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I knew straight away what it was.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Freya added: &#8220;Meningitis moves so fast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It can take hold in hours, which is why it&#8217;s so important that parents know the signs and act immediately if something feels wrong, even if your child has just been seen by a doctor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Harmonie is incredible. She swims, she does gymnastics, she goes to school, she dances and she&#8217;s won awards but every day she has to find her own way of doing things that come easily to other children.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Two doses of the MenB vaccine are required to be administered at least 28 days apart.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Students can get them from local pharmacies, booked via the NHS website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Freya said Harmonie, who is now 12, &#8220;had gone from babbling and trying to climb out of her&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":792505,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[59,102,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-792504","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\/792504","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=792504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/792505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}