A mysterious spike in potentially fatal brain infections in children has doctors in southern Nevada on high-alert.
A mysterious spike in potentially fatal brain infections in children has doctors in southern Nevada on high alert.
Dr. Taryn Bragg, an associate professor at the University of Utah who treats pediatric brain abscess cases in Nevada cases,“Every single call I was getting from the ER was a kid coming in with a brain abscess,” Bragg said. Dr. Shaun Rodgers, a pediatric neurosurgeon at Cohen Children’s Medical Center in Queens, said that his hospital has also been seeing an increase in cases since the end of 2022.
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