A four-year-old was hospitalized for two months after suffering a stroke — which was likely triggered by a common childhood illness she’d picked up months before.
Olivia Elliot, now 5, woke up vomiting and complaining of a headache in June 2025 but her mother, Rebecca, 31, initially thought she had just picked up a bug.
But when the tot toppled on one side and couldn’t grip her mother’s hand, she was rushed to hospital and her condition rapidly deteriorated.
Read more at https://nypost.com/2026/08/10/health/4-year-old-suffers-stroke-after-common-childhood-disease/
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