3-Week-Old Baby Has A Brush With Death After Catching Meningitis From The Cat

When you’re a new mom, you have too much to worry about: diapers, feeding, cleaning, and much more.

For one UK Mom, the last thing she thought she needed to think about was whether or not her cat was near her baby’s bottle.

Chelsea-Ann Dodd didn’t think twice about it until her 3-week-old daughter contracted Meningitis from the house pet.

Sparkle Anderson was just a mere three weeks old when she picked up a rare strain of Meningitis from the cat’s saliva. Typically, Meningitis is not transferable between humans and animals, making this 2011 case pretty rare.

The cat had licked Sparkle’s baby bottle, leaving behind the deadly disease for Sparkle to later pick up.

Later that week, Sparkle would not stop crying. For three hours straight, the child cried until Dodd said she followed her maternal instinct and took her to the hospital.

Dodd said, “the doctors said she was only the 39th person in the world known to picked up that particular strain of meningitis.”

“She was just three weeks old and very vulnerable. It was very frightening,” Dodd said.

Now, the child has made a full recovery and lives a healthy life. She and Chesney still live together and there is no chance the cat will infect Sparkle with meningitis again.

As for Sparkle’s Mom, she said, “I didn’t know very much about meningitis – I always thought the only thing I should be worried about was a rash. But there are lots of other symptoms too, and knowing them can make all the difference in helping to catch it early.”

She just grateful this terrifying experience has been put in the past and we are too.

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