From an abscess in his spine to meningitis and sepsis, Shaun Lunt’s hellacious journey

It started as an innocuous injury in a tackle, but it was the beginning of a hellacious battle that left Shaun Lunt asking doctors if he was going to die. At the end of last year, the Hull Kingston Rovers captain faced the toughest battle of his life after he contracted bacterial meningitis, a severe infection that affects a person's brain and s

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