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Daily Mirror
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Lydia Stephens & Hannah Kane

Doctors said baby died of rare illness before parents found out tragic truth

Parents of a newborn baby who tragically died have discovered the horrifying truth behind his death.

Joann and Christian Edwards lost baby Elijah when he was just 12 days old, with doctors telling them he died of an infection so rare he was the only one in the country to die from it in years.

But just over a year after his death, they found out little Elijah is not the only Welsh baby to have died with the infection, and that multiple other babies had been fighting the rare condition.

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