The mother of an 18-year-old student from East Sussex who is facing a quadruple amputation after sepsis has described how he ...

and the fingers of his remaining hand amputated after he contracted sepsis. Hamish Wilson, 18, from Crowborough, had just begun university in Southampton, where he is studying philosophy ...

I inspected the spot, again slowly sliding my hand across my shoulder. The bump had grown ... I had no idea, lying there in ...

that sepsis is a major problem. "So in a way I wasn't actually that surprised - on the other hand I didn't expect it to be double the previous estimate." The good news in this analysis is that ...

Sepsis, which is also called blood poisoning, is the body's severe reaction to an infection. A rash, changes in mental state, fever, and low blood pressure are four early signs of sepsis.