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- Meg Edmonds urges parents to learn about cold-sores’ risks to newborns.
- Her daughter Magnolia died at ten days old in February after contracting herpes simplex virus, likely from her mother.
- HSV can cause life-threatening illness in newborns whose immune systems are not fully developed.
- Edmonds speaks publicly through the Lullaby Trust’s infection-prevention campaign for infant health.
