Vivienne Murphy was just ten years old when she caught Strep A, and surgeons had to remove 17% of her body in a desperate attempt to save her.

Her parents, who have lost their little daughter, are hopeful that her story will serve as a warning to others.

Vivienne, like many other children, was at school when she first complained of feeling ill.

Her father, Dermot Murphy, picked her up on Valentine’s Day, and she began to have a sore throat.

The 10-year-old acquired a rash as her illness worsened over the following five days, and her parents took her to three doctors in search of solutions.

Tired of being rejected, her parents took her to Cork University Hospital, where she was diagnosed with swelling in her right leg.

Unfortunately, it was then that Irish doctors saw a little black mark on Vivienne and immediately requested blood testing.

According to Dermot, “all hell broke loose” when the young girl was diagnosed with necrotizing fasciitis, often known as the “flesh-eating disease.”

Because it had spread so swiftly, Vivienne had sepsis, and her body was in shock.

Doctors rushed the family to Temple Street in Dublin for an emergency amputation.

Despite the fact that doctors had just intended to take her leg, her condition was so terrible that they had to remove 17% of her torso.

It’s a figure her father can’t get rid of.

He described the heartbreaking chat he had with her surgeon. “What he said to us was stunning. ‘I believe I have prevented the illness from spreading, but I had to remove 17% of your daughter’s body,’ he stated. Seventeen percent is etched in my mind.”

This was due to the virus spreading throughout the schoolgirl’s body, manifesting on her buttocks and both legs.

Vivienne’s weary body failed to recuperate, and she suffered from a cardiac arrest that resulted in brain damage.

Her parents made the sad choice to cut off her life support just two weeks after she was taken home from school.

Her 2019 death has prompted her parents to warn others about the dangers of Strep A.

“Our daughter started out with signs and symptoms, and within ten days she was gone,” Lily and Dermot Murphy told the reporters. We’re simply asking and screaming that parents watch out for these things, don’t be passive, and never believe you’re an overreacting parent, because you’re not.”