Lancashire mum backs campaign for all kids to get Meningitis B vaccine
A Lancashire mum, whose son died from meningitis B, is backing a campaign for all children up to the age of 11 to be vaccinated against the disease.
A Lancashire mum, whose son died from meningitis B, is backing a campaign for all children up to the age of 11 to be vaccinated against the disease.
Two-year old son Alfie Flemming from Thornton died in 2014 - a vaccine wasn't avaliable when he was alive.
His mum Joanne Mills is backing a petition for all kids to be vaccinated - it's got almost 450,000 signatures so far.
At the moment the government provide a vaccination programme for babies aged between 2 - 5 months.
Joanne Mills is backing calls for that to be extended to all children.
Joanne has set up a fund in Alfie's name - Alfie's Forever Fund - and has raised more than ÂŁ14,000 so far which is being used to help Meningitis Now.
You can find out more about Alfie's Forever Fund here
You can find out more about the petition for the meningitis B vaccination programme to be extended here