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Sepsis accounts for 48,000 deaths annually in the UK, that’s more than breast, bowel and prostate cancer put together. Sepsis is what happens when our immune system overreacts to an infection.
Symptoms initially present as flu like but can rapidly deteriorate into a life threatening condition.