Parents forced to have 2-yr-old's arms, legs amputated to save his life after he contracted deadly infection
A toddler in the US had to get the lower part of all four limbs amputated because of a mystery infection that he contracted which left the doctors baffled. Two-year-old Jeremiah Cox started developing a high fever on September 29 — a little after his 19-year-old mother, Ashley Cox, went on maternity leave. After the toddler was rushed to Riley Children's Hospital in Indianapolis, his health deteriorated at a rapid pace with the appearance of large purple bruises all across his tiny body.
The Daily Mail reported that the doctors at the hospital diagnosed him with septic shock and the condition called purpura, which they believe was caused by an unknown bacterial infection. Even though the antibiotics that Jeremiah was prescribed killed the infection, the blood supply to his arms and legs had already stopped. The infection then seemed like it was going to spread.