FRANCE warns of newborn deaths from usually-harmless infection after string of similar cases in UK

FRANCE warns of newborn deaths from usually-harmless infection after string of similar cases in UK An unusual wave of baby deaths linked to a new strain of a normally harmless virus has caused alarm in France.

Seven babies are known to have died after being infected with Echovirus-11, with two more still in hospital, according to an alert from the World Health Organization (WHO).

Echovirus-11 belongs to family of pathogens called enteroviruses that normally only cause cold or flu-like symptoms in adults, but can be dangerous to young children. The Daily Mail