Report: Toddler Contracts Rare Infection
Posted by MichaelCooper on March 17, 2007
AP
Saturday, March 17, 2007
A 2-year-old Indiana boy and his mother contracted a rare
and life-threatening infection from his soldier father’s smallpox
vaccination, according to a published report.
The boy and his mother were being treated in a specially ventilated
room at the University of Chicago’s Comer Children’s Hospital,
the Chicago Tribune reported Saturday.
The family’s name and home town were not released at their
request.
The boy developed a virulent rash over 80 percent of his body
earlier this month after coming in contact with his father,
who had recently been vaccinated for smallpox before he was
to be deployed overseas by the Army, the paper said…………More
Report: Toddler Contracts Rare Infection
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