Rebecca Adlington’s Sepsis Survival Story

Leeds News Today | 2 Min News | The Daily News Now! · Jun 26, 2026 · 1m

Olympic swimmer Rebecca Adlington shares her harrowing near-death experience from four years ago, when she developed sepsis after surgery for a miscarriage—so severe she couldn’t move or open her eyes, leaving her children terrified. Antibiotics saved her life, and now she’s teaming up with the Fleming Initiative and GSK to launch the “Keep Antibiotics in Play” campaign to combat antibiotic resistance, a global crisis already killing over a million people yearly. With her recent birth of her third child, Thea, Adlington urges everyone to use antibiotics responsibly—only when prescribed…