Charlotte Cleverley-Bisman

Charlotte Lucy Cleverley-Bisman (born 1 October 2003 on Waiheke Island) became famous as the face of a New Zealand campaign to encourage vaccination against meningococcal disease after contracting and surviving the disease. She was nicknamed "Miraculous Baby Charlotte" by her fellow New Zealanders as a result of making headlines worldwide after recuperating from a series of life-threatening complications. She is believed to be the smallest baby to have survived such a severe infection and the subsequent quadruple amputations. Cleverley-Bisman is the daughter of Pam Cleverley and Perry Bisman. In 2004, New Zealand was in the thirteenth year of an epidemic of meningococcal disease, a bacterial infection which can cause meningitis and...