Newborn baby girl died of echovirus type 11: CDC

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/07/03
By: Chen Wei-ting and William Yen 

Taipei, July 3 (CNA) A newborn baby girl died last week, two weeks after falling ill with echovirus type 11, the fourth enterovirus fatality this year, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) said Tuesday.

CDC physician Huang Wan-ting (黃婉婷) said the baby girl came from northern Taiwan and was hospitalized after birth due to respiratory distress.

After three days, the baby developed a fever, elevated heart rate, acute hepatitis, and myocarditis, resulting in her death two weeks later, Huang said.

Although the girl’s mother has a history of chronic coughs, she did not have a fever before giving birth and no family members showed enterovirus symptoms, Huang noted.
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