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Young mum, 35, died after doctors failed to spot extremely rare form of stroke

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A young mum died after medics failed to spot she had suffered "one of the rarest forms of strokes" on a CT brain scan, an inquest heard.

Kerry Halpin, from Blackpool, was just 35 when she died on November 1, 2019. The mum-of-two had gone to Blackpool Victoria Hospital, where she worked, at 11.30am two days earlier complaining of headaches, nausea, neck stiffness and a sensitivity to light.

She described the pain as "one of the worst headaches of her life’' and A&E doctors suspected she was either suffering from a brain hemorrhage or an infection in the brain such as meningitis or encephalitis.

Miss Halpin was immediately started on broad spectrum antibiotics and sent for a CT scan. An inquest at County Hall in Preston on February 16

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