Boy, 8, suddenly d!es just hours after catching infection as he complained about one symptom

“There’s no words that can describe that pain,” she added. “I feel I have failed my child because I could not protect him from everything that would cause harm.”

The family say they’re unsure how Liam, who had been fully vaccinated against H.flu, contracted the bacteria though paediatrician Dr Eric Yancy said how vaccination rates among youngsters have fallen.

Dr Yancy said the disease was ‘absolutely devastating’ before a vaccine was made available, which was introduced in 1985.

“If it didn’t k.ill the children within a very short period of time, it left many of them with significant complications,” Yancy added.

Babies are given three doses of the shot, which is about 95 percent effective at preventing infections.

As per the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), before the vaccine thousands of children across the US would contract the bacteria and either develop serious life-changing symptoms, like becoming deaf, blind, paralyzed or mentally impaired, or it would become fatal.

It is primarily spread through respiratory droplets.

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