After an uncomplicated birth, a newborn baby’s health rapidly deteriorated and, at first, doctors couldn’t figure out why.
According to the Washington Post, the doctors performed a range of tests in the neo-natal intensive care unit and discovered the cause of the baby’s respiratory distress was a deadly blood infection known as late-onset group B Streptococcus agalactiae (GBS) bacteremia.
As explained in a report released by the Centres for Disease and Prevention, the doctors treated the infection with an 11 day course of antibiotics.

However, shortly after returning home the baby contracted another GBS infection and returned to the hospital.