Nevada children have experienced rare brain infections and abscesses as CDC investigates
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After infections and brain abscesses in children tripled last year in southern Nevada, the CDC is investigating. Fox News Digital spoke with the pediatric neurosurgeon who treated the cases.
"We started noticing the infections in March 2022," Dr. Bragg told "Fox & Friends Weekend" on Sunday morning. "The vast majority of children presented with sinus infections that fairly rapidly progressed to abscesses forming in the brain." There have not been any fatalities from these pediatric brain abscesses in Nevada. The children who came to the hospital with brain infections were "incredibly sick" when they arrived. The most common cause is the presence of bacteria or fungi in the brain. "A brain abscess is a medical emergency." "You don't just get a brain abscess out of nowhere." Melissa Rudy is health editor and a member of the lifestyle team at Fox News Digital.
A majority of the kids also showed the presence of the bacteria Streptococcus intermedius, which is commonly found in the oral and respiratory cavity, she said.