 Luke died the day after he was born in Ipswich Hospital |
Hospital staff are still trying to establish the source of an infection which killed a 36-hour-old baby boy. Luke Day, whose family lives at Woodbridge, Suffolk, died at Ipswich Hospital in February after contracting the hospital superbug MRSA.
He is thought to be the youngest victim of the infection, which has affected hospital patients throughout Britain.
Doctors suspect that he became infected when the bug entered the bloodstream through his umbilical cord.
"The source of the infection has not been traced. Investigations are continuing," a hospital spokeswoman said on Wednesday.
Post-mortem examination
NHS officials called the death "a tragedy of the highest proportion".
Luke was born naturally, weighing 7lb 7oz, and showed no signs of ill health but he was found dead a day later.
A post-mortem examination at Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital in London found the cause of death was septicaemia caused by MRSA.
The bug, an infection resistant to antibiotics, is blamed for 20% of the 5,000 deaths in hospitals every year from infections.
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