Source: WWL
A virus is going around locally that gave one family quite the scare. It’s known as RSV, and is common among infants and the elderly this time of year.
Earlier this month, Mary Danna Daste and her husband Kevin, noticed a change in their 14-month old daughter, Vivian.
“About 3:00 a.m., she started with this bark-like cough,” Daste said.
“It sounded like a seal cough.”They took their daughter to the doctor, who gave her some medicine. However, she wasn’t getting better, she was getting worse. After another trip to the doctor, Mary was told to monitor Vivian’s fever and cough.
“At 5:00 a.m., her fever spiked to 103 degrees so we went straight to Children’s Hospital,” Mary said. “When they told me within 24-hours after that, that she was being put in ICU that’s when I freaked out.”
In addition to Pneumonia and Adenovirus, doctors also found Respiratory Syncytial Virus or RSV.
“They said it’s really bad this year compared to other years,” Mary said doctors told her. “Out of the 19 rooms they had in ICU,…
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