Their preemie was already a fighter. Then at 3 weeks old, she caught the virus that’s packing hospitals across the US

As Abhishesh Pokharel carried his 3-week-old daughter into the emergency department, her fingers and toes were turning blue.

Other parts of her tiny body were yellow.

Something was very wrong.

The triage nurse at Greater Baltimore Medical Center knew it, too. She took one look at baby Ayra and gave her father an order:

Across the building he sped, his wife right behind him – to the pediatric emergency department.

By then, Ayra was sometimes not breathing at all, clinicians later told CNN.

The rapid response team went to work.