I am glad this poor child is going to pull through. And very, very glad that he is not infected with the much worse smallpox! Yet another person to add to my prayers. I am going to have to start writing all these names down soon!
Toddler improving on experimental smallpox drug - CNN.com: "An experimental pill appears to be helping a toddler who had a near-fatal skin reaction to his father's smallpox shot, doctors said Monday.
The drug, an antiviral made by Siga Technologies called ST-246, worked when more conventional treatment failed, the doctors said.
The 2-year-old, still in critical condition at the University of Chicago's Comer Children's Hospital, developed the rare, serious reaction called eczema vaccinatum after being with his father, a soldier vaccinated for deployment in Iraq.
'He's making slow improvement every day. He's still in the pediatric intensive care unit,' said Dr. John Marcinak, pediatric infectious disease specialist at the hospital."
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