Pictures And Stories That Touch The Heart. Meningitis victim defies odds play school football team.

This is brave little Ellie Challis playing football.

Little Ellie touched the hearts of the world when she took her first ever steps on prosthetic legs after tragically losing all her limbs to meningitis in July 2005.

She had defied all the odds to fight for her life in hospital after contracting the killer bug, but she had to have all her limbs amputated eight weeks later.

She has spent the last four years walking on prosthetic limbs - and now amazingly she plays football for her school team.

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