Camila Rose Burns: 4-year-old girl battling deadly Strep A taken off ventilator as her condition improves
LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND: A four-year-old girl whose struggle with the deadly Strep A infection gripped the nation's heartstrings has been taken off a ventilator as her condition begins to improve. Camila Rose Burns, a patient from Bolton, Lancashire, is fighting Strep A in Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool and is now breathing on her own with additional oxygen after being taken off the machine.
She only developed the infection just over a week ago, and she is still receiving dialysis in the hospital's intensive care unit. Her parents, Kaye and Dean Burns expressed gratitude to the public for helping and praying for their family and reported that their daughter has made "massive improvement" after being off the ventilator. The little girl is also battling sepsis, and according to her parents, she is "still extremely poorly."
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