A student’s “freshers’ flu” turned out to be deadly meningitis — and she had both legs amputated to save her life.

Ketia Moponda, 19, arrived at university eight days before she was struck down with what she initially believed to be freshers’ flu — a mild cough new students get in their first few weeks.

Her memory is hazy due to her illness, but the marketing and advertising student confessed to friends she felt terrible.

And when family and friends couldn’t reach her the next day, worried security staff and a fellow student at De Montfort University in Leicester entered her room and found her unconscious. 6

She was diagnosed with meningococcal septicaemia, which caused bacterial meningitis, which led to sepsis, and she underwent amputations of all ten fingers and both legs in Jan

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