Calls for meningococcal B vaccine to be funded in Queensland after 23-year-old's death

A week after returning from Bali, where she had been celebrating finishing her law degree late last year, Bella Fidler walked into a Gold Coast hospital.

She would never leave.

While the 23-year-old had flu-like symptoms, her condition rapidly deteriorated and she was eventually diagnosed with meningococcal B, which caused deadly bacterial meningitis.

Her mother, Jodie Fidler, said Bella "had a seizure and from that point on it spiralled rapidly out of control".

"She stopped breathing, they did a lumbar puncture to determine what was wrong with her," she said.

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