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Mum of teenage girl who died after using tampons begs people to learn danger signs of life threatening infection

The mum of a teenager who died from sepsis while on her period is begging people to learn the danger signs of Toxic Shock Syndrome.

Jemma-Louise Roberts, 13, began feeling unwell with sickness and diarrhoea while on a family holiday - and was wrongly diagnosed with winter vomiting bug Norovirus.

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