A two-day-old baby and her mother caught hospital superbug MRSA.
Soshone Peart and her mother, Priscilla, were struck down with the bug at Gateshead's Queen Elizabeth Hospital.
Complications at birth had caused Soshone's heart to stop and she was resuscitated. She was recovering in the Special Care Baby Unit when she developed MRSA fever symptoms.
Nurses found Soshone, and two other babies in the unit, had the deadly bug.
Ms Peart, 20, who also tested positive for MRSA, said: "I started getting these terrible fevers and going hot and cold and being really sick."
Now aged nine weeks and back home in Teams, Gateshead, with Ms Peart and her father Neil, 23, Soshone was yesterday given the all clear.
Ms Peart said: "She's really been very lucky and so have I."
Bosses at Gateshead Health Trust were unable to comment on the case
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