{"id":10072,"date":"2025-08-13T18:01:44","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T23:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=10072"},"modified":"2025-08-13T18:01:47","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T23:01:47","slug":"dangerous-tick-borne-virus-causes-brain-damage-in-vulnerable-young-patient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/08\/13\/dangerous-tick-borne-virus-causes-brain-damage-in-vulnerable-young-patient\/","title":{"rendered":"Dangerous tick-borne virus causes brain damage in vulnerable young patient"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/health\/dangerous-tick-borne-virus-causes-brain-damage-vulnerable-young-patient\">Fox<\/a> Newborn baby fights for life after contracting Powassan virus. A 5-week-old baby in Boston is fighting for her life after a tick bite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/health\/healthy-living\/childrens-health\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"The baby, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The baby<\/a>, Lily Sisco, was bitten while on a walk with her family on Martha\u2019s Vineyard, her mother, Tiffany Sisco, told local news outlets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After returning from the walk, Sisco told WCVB Channel 5 Boston, &#8220;I found this tiny, tiny, tiny, the teeniest [tick] on her ankle.&#8221; &#8220;I picked it off, and like, a week later, she started getting a fever of 102.&#8221; The Siscos brought baby Lily to the emergency room, and she was then flown to Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/health\/health-care\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"advanced care, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">advanced care<\/a>, according to a GoFundMe page set up for the family. In addition to the fever, the baby began to experience seizures, which led to her placement in the PICU (pediatric intensive care unit).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Siscos shared in the GoFundMe that Lily &#8220;has suffered brain damage caused by an infection.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox Newborn baby fights for life after contracting Powassan virus. A 5-week-old baby in Boston is fighting for her life after a tick bite. The baby, Lily Sisco, was bitten while on a walk with her family on Martha\u2019s Vineyard, her mother, Tiffany Sisco, told local news outlets. After returning from the walk, Sisco told [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tick-bourne-diseases"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10073,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10072\/revisions\/10073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}