UK: Toddler, 3, died after catching disease 70 per cent of children contract as devastated parents warn others
The family of a toddler who "didn't have an immune system" say he died after contracting a disease which 70 per cent of children catch by the age of three. Raffy Holliday passed away aged three after contracting herpes, his parents said.
After his transplant in 2020, he was tested on a weekly basis for three other strains of the human herpes virus - Epstein Barr which causes glandular fever, cytomegalovirus which causes mononucleosis, and adenovirus which causes the common cold.
"HHV-6B is the most commonly reactivated form of the herpes virus post-transplant, so I can't understand why they don't test for it. It's frustrating. The hospital told us they don't normally see HHV-6B do what it did to Raffy, but it can and it did. We don't have our son anymore because of it. Imogen claims that at one point after his transplant Raffy went for more than seven months without being tested or monitored for HHV-6B. During this time the virus caused him to develop ulcerative colitis, gut bleeds, external ulcers, mouth sores, two bouts of pancreatitis, a blood clot, death of tissue in the spleen, a bleed between his brain and skull, and seizures.
"Not having him around anymore will never feel right but it's a case of getting used to a new normal. Some days are harder than others. Some days I can't think for the tears. But this is a really healthy distraction."
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