My daughter is preventing for her life after contracting meningitis at a ‘tremendous spreader’ nightclub – she’s struggling seizures and is in isolation all due to one doomed night time out

A Good Morning Britain guest revealed on Wednesday’s episode of the ITV show how her daughter was left fighting for her life after contracting meningitis B at the ‘super spreader’ nightclub.  

The number of cases of meningitis being investigated in Kent increased to 20 today (Wednesday 18 March).

Of the 20 total, nine cases have been confirmed in the lab and 11 remain under investigation. Six of the confirmed cases so far have been established to be meningitis B.

The outbreak, which appears to stem from Club Chemistry nightclub in Canterbury, has already killed sixth-form pupil Juliette Kenny, 18, and a 21-year-old University of Kent student. 

Khali Goodman spoke to presenters Ed Balls and Susanna Reid about her 21-year-old daughter Keeleigh’s condition, who fell ill last week after attending the night club on March 12.    

Explaining the lead up to her hospitalisation, Khali told the broadcasters: ‘She woke up, she didn’t feel quite well on the Saturday morning. She rang into work and obviously said that she wouldn’t be making it. 

‘As the day progressed, she rang me, she said she felt really ill with this headache, she was very tired.

‘I don’t think her bones were hurting quite so bad, but they were aching a little bit. She had been sick. So I assumed it might have been Covid or something.

‘I suggested that she drink lots of water, go back to sleep, just take it easy. 

‘Later on, hours later, she rang me back and said it’s getting worse and worse.  Her head, she said that she’s never felt pain like it.

‘Her neck, her body was completely stiff, she couldn’t even sleep through the pain. She was being sick. She was soaking wet where she was sweating.

‘She went to the bathroom, she had a seizure, as she fell, she banged her head, she’s got cuts on her face where she might have hit something on the way down, and luckily her housemate that she lives with, found her and rang an ambulance.’   

Updating the hosts on how her daughter is doing, Khali said: ‘So at the moment she’s doing pretty well, she’s improving, her blood pressure is coming down, her temperate is returning to normal. 

‘She’s started eating a little bit more now which is great.

‘She’s very weak in herself, she sort of very tired, very sore. But she’s slowly improving and she’s getting there.’ 

She added: ‘She’s doing OK, she’s still in isolation. 

‘But she’s slowly getting there and I am going today.

‘I am going to make her a pasta salad at her request, get a few bits of nibbles that she wanted. 

‘She’s going to get there, she’s doing really, really well. We’re really pleased and extremely lucky, very, very lucky.’ 

Medical experts have advised those who attended the club on the 5, 6 and 7 March to get antibiotics, but Keeley was at the venue more recently. 

Khali said: ‘I did say that on a post I saw that was saying people should, I said “Why those dates?” 

‘My daughter was there on the 12th and she’s been fighting for her life with meningitis, I don’t know where these particular dates came from.

‘That’s not the case.’  

The National Pharmacy Association industry group revealed this morning that there was now currently no stock of meningitis B vaccines available for people to pay for privately.

A national incident was declared by the UKHSA after a grammar school pupil and a university student died – and cases outside of Kent were reported in London and France.

A baby is also fighting for her life in a London hospital after becoming unwell with meningitis B on March 4, just days before the cluster of meningitis cases emerged in Canterbury.

Nine-month-old Nala-Rose Fletcher, from Folkestone, Kent, is in intensive care at Evelina London Children’s Hospital, as doctors warned she faces ‘life-changing’ surgeries.

Confirming the updated total number of cases this morning, a UKHSA spokesman said: ‘All those affected who are currently linked to the outbreak are young adults.

‘UKHSA is aware of a baby with confirmed meningococcal group B infection who is not currently linked to the outbreak but UKHSA will continue to investigate this case.’

Good Morning Britain airs weekdays from 6am on ITV1 and ITVX.