{"id":831725,"date":"2026-03-17T12:25:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T12:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/831725\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T12:25:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T12:25:10","slug":"basildon-toddlers-death-prompts-call-for-parvovirus-awareness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/831725\/","title":{"rendered":"Basildon toddler&#8217;s death prompts call for parvovirus awareness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A lack of awareness could mean a &#8220;worse outcome&#8221; for patients, he continued.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nadel said the &#8220;most common&#8221; kinds of infection caused by parvovirus included <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhs.uk\/conditions\/slapped-cheek-syndrome\/\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">slapped cheek syndrome, external<\/a>, which causes a rash on the cheeks, rather than the virus moving to the heart and causing myocarditis as it had done in Viviana-Ray&#8217;s case.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gill recorded the 14-month-old&#8217;s cause of death as complications from myocarditis caused by parvovirus, contributed to by bronchiolitis and bronchial pneumonia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The inquest concluded that the failures in her treatment at Basildon Hospital were &#8220;not directly causative to her death&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gill&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.judiciary.uk\/prevention-of-future-death-reports\/viviana-ray-butnaru-prevention-of-future-deaths-report\/\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report, which was sent to Basildon Hospital, external<\/a> (Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust) and the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, also identified a lack of local or national guidelines for medical staff in identifying and treating potential heart conditions, and requested improvement in this area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A lack of awareness could mean a &#8220;worse outcome&#8221; for patients, he continued. Nadel said the &#8220;most common&#8221;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":831726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[105,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-831725","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116244508053897328","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=831725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/831726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=831725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=831725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=831725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}