7/01/2008

He stayed without legs by a medical error

Even had not fulfilled two years when Lydia Cross was transferred to hospital Chippenham, in the locality of British re-Wiltshi, suffering from high fever and vomiting. The doctors diagnosed a virus very mild common in children, so that sent home twice.

When the medical team finally succeeded in his diagnosis, an infectious meningitis caused by the bacterium haemopiĆ­ilus infiuenzae type 8, the disease had progressed as part of the fabric was already poisoned, forcing both his legs amputated. After a tough campaign, parents have managed to raise sufficient funds to equip his daughter two prostheses that will alleviate the suffering of small.

Before that there immunization, FIA-mophilus infiuenzae was considered the leading cause of bacterial meningitis in children under five. The disease is highly characteristic in an age range between the first month of life and 4 years.

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