Post by Mary Fischer
In what has to be about the saddest, most devastating story I've heard in a long time -- a 2-month-old baby died after his father kissed him, something pretty much every parent does to their baby every single day. Carl Maclaren never thought twice about giving his newborn baby Kaiden a kiss. And why would he? Moms and dads kiss their babies all the time, because it's instinctive. But when doctors informed him and Kaiden's mother that their precious baby had contracted the herpes simplex virus, or the cold sore virus, they were faced with the realization that it had been passed on to him from Carl's lips.![]()
In what has to be about the saddest, most devastating story I've heard in a long time -- a 2-month-old baby died after his father kissed him, something pretty much every parent does to their baby every single day. Carl Maclaren never thought twice about giving his newborn baby Kaiden a kiss. And why would he? Moms and dads kiss their babies all the time, because it's instinctive. But when doctors informed him and Kaiden's mother that their precious baby had contracted the herpes simplex virus, or the cold sore virus, they were faced with the realization that it had been passed on to him from Carl's lips.