[HIGHLIGHTS] Émilie had meningitis as a teenager: “My organs failed me one after the other”

Meningococcal meningitis is increasing in France. While vaccination is being expanded, Émilie Sougey, 3 was diagnosed with the disease.

She was plunged into an artificial coma for seven days. “During this sleep, my organs failed me one after the other,” she says. ‘I was curled up in the fetal position, I couldn't move. My life was tied to machines,’ she says, ‘My organs were failing me.’