Young Mom Dies From Rare Hantavirus, Her Mother Shares Story To Spread Awareness

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Kiley Lane – a young mother and preschool teacher – has spent the last two months fighting hantavirus. Her mother, Julie Barron, spent days awake and at her daughter’s hospital bedside. Barron feared that if she left or went to sleep, she would miss seeing her daughter wake up. According to TODAY, Julie never got to see her daughter wake up as she stopped breathing and passed away on April 18.

Julie made the decision to share her daughter’s story to not only honor the memory of Kiley, but to raise awareness about hantavirus.

“We wouldn’t want anyone else to have to go through this. We had the absolute best caregivers. I don’t know that we got her to them soon enough.”

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