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Telethon 2026: Meningitis Centre Australia and meningococcal survivor grateful for Telethon support

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What the ambulance crew strongly suspected, but his parents didn’t realise at the time, was that five-year-old Charlie had contracted meningococcal B — a disease where every second counts.

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