Claudia Gill knew something was terribly wrong when she woke up dazed and confused, squinting under bright lights in a hospital bed while hooked up to monitors. The last thing the then 18-year-old remembered was talking to someone in a hospital hallway hours earlier after she had arrived in an ambulance with a severe headache, stiffness, vomiting and sensitivity to light and noise. The 20-year-old, from Wollongong, had been placed in an isolation ward because she had contracted the contagious and potentially deadly meningococcal disease despite never developing the tell-tale purple rash.
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