Hospital saves lung girl Elle in world-first ‘bug zap’ trial

A GIRL can breathe normally for the first time after a double lung transplant – thanks to pioneering treatment that had never been tried before.

Elle Morris, 11, was bombarded daily for months with a cocktail of antibiotics to ensure bugs harboured in her old lungs were not passed on.

The revolutionary therapy was developed by doctors at London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital

Elle pulled through op after cystic fibrosis sufferer Elle faced the prospect of being denied her lifesaving donor op. Her old lungs were affected by aggressive non-tuberculous mycobacterium, a condition with such a high-post surgery mortality rate that most hospitals refuse to do transplants. Elle’s mum Becky Whitfield, of Nantwich, Cheshire, said: “I don’t know how she has made it. The infection looked like it would take her before a donor was found.”