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"textContent": "Amid the ongoing meningitis outbreak in the UK, Claire Byrne reflected on her frightening experience with the illness when she was a teen. The Irish presenter fought the dangerous infection when she was only 14 and recalled how she received the last rites after taking a turn in the hospital. In 1990, two years before […]\n\nThe post Claire Byrne on receiving last rites after meningitis diagnosis at 14: ‘I wasn’t alert enough to be scared’ appeared first on RollerCoaster.",
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