His sad mother revealed that a boy in Indiana died hours after he complained of mild symptoms, which ended up with a rare and deadly bacterial infection.
Liam Dalberg, 8, returned to the home from the school that complains of a headache in April, but his mother Ashley Dahlberg, until the next morning, had not realized that there was a mistake with her optimistic son.
Liam rushed to the hospital, where the doctors diagnosed him with a very deadly b -type Plota, also known as “H. FLU” or “HIB”.
HIB is a bacterial infection – not a virus – most children are vaccinated as children, but though, it is still possible to contract with it, especially in the ages younger and older.
“Anyone usually shrinks dies within 24 hours,” said the sad mother.
MRI showed that the infection has spread and was covering an 8 -year -old brain and spinal cord.
“Basically, at this time stage, there was nothing they could do,” Dalberg revealed.
Liam died less than 24 hours after the complaint of headaches.
“I never wish this type of pain to the worst enemy ever. It is difficult,” Dalburg cried as she spoke of hardships about her son's loss in the blink of an eye.
“To sit there and listen to the doctors say:” I have done everything correctly, there is nothing we can do. “
HIB infections can be “invasive”, or rather spread to parts of the body that are usually germs -free, according to the Cleveland Clinic.
Infection usually spreads through respiratory drops and can remain asleep in the noses and throat of healthy people.
However, the weak immune system or individuals who already suffer from viral infections can allow HIB to enter the bloodstream, giving bacteria a way to spread to the host members.
Dr. Eric Yansi, a pediatrician at Indianapolis, is familiar with deadly bacterial infection, to 13wmaz that even HIB vaccines were presented in 1985, it was “very devastating.”
“If the children are not killed within a very short period of time, many of them have left great complications,” Yansi participated.
Dahlberg said that Liam was vaccinated against Hayeb, but Yansi made it clear that her son is likely to contract her from a child who was not vaccinated against bacterial infection – which means that more children may be at risk of exposure.
Before giving the vaccine to children and then to infants in 1990, “about 20,000 children under 5 years old suffer from severe HIB disease every year, and about 1000 died,” according to the leadership of Cleveland.
Since then, HIB infection has decreased significantly in the United States by more than 99 % since 1991. By 2019, 0.15 out of 100,000 children under the age of 5 years of hyposis.
In 2024, less than 50 cases were reported in the United States, according to the Center for Disease Control.
However, Dalberg urges parents to make sure their children are vaccinated against HIB so that other families do not have to try the same loss.
The sad mother said: “I feel that I have failed my child because I could not protect him from everything that would cause harm.”
