Melanie Dix is the assistant manager of Great Barr Nursery School in the West Midlands. She speaks about the time when Kyle died as if it were yesterday. The memories are still raw and a look around the nursery shows that the meningitis message learnt from Kyle's tragic and sudden death is never far away.
'One of our children, little baby Kyle, was eight months old when he died from meningitis in March 2002. He came to the nursery in the morning and had a temperature so we sent him home. The next morning we got a call to say he had died,' says Melanie.
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