A STUDENT is "lucky to be alive" after her bout of “freshers’ flu” turned out to be a life-threatening illness that forced her to have both legs and all ten fingers amputated.

Ketia Moponda, 19, was struck down with what she thought was fresher's flu - a bug contracted by new students - eight days after arriving at university.

The marketing and advertising student remembered telling friends she felt like she was “going to die”, but her memory gets hazy after that.

When family and friends couldn’t reach her the next day, worried security staff and a fellow student at De Montfort University in Leicester entered her room and found her unconscious.

She was diagnosed with meningococcal septicaemia - life-threatening blood poisoning - and meningitis, inflammation of the membranes surroun

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