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Ketia Moponda had to get her legs and fingers amputated in life-saving operations after mistaking a serious illness for freshers’ flu a few months earlier

The 19-year-old college student was found unconscious in her dorm room and transported to the ICU

Moponda was diagnosed with meningococcal septicaemia, which caused bacterial meningitis and led to sepsis

A college student had to get her legs and fingers amputated in life-saving operations after mistaking a serious illness for freshers’ flu.

Eight days after Ketia Moponda arrived at De Montfort University in Leicester, England, in September 2024, she started feeling sick, per SWNS.

The 19-year-old didn’t take immediate action because she believed her symptoms – which started with just a cough – were caused by the freshe

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