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DuChaine immediately began chest compressions and then back thrusts on the small baby girl. By the time EMS providers arrived, Kamiya was breathing again.

\"We always had that fear in the back of our head that, 'Is what we're doing enough? Is it going to be enough to bring her back?'\" DuChaine told \"Good Morning America.\" \"Obviously, once we are able to bring her back, that was a huge sigh of relief.\"

Kamiya was rushed to the hospital where her mother said she was diagnosed with respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, an illness that is surging to record levels among children across the country.

Each year in the United States, an estimated 58,000 to 80,000 children younger than 5 years old are hospitalized due to RSV infection, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Most children recover in a week or two, but RSV can be serious, especially for infants and the elderly.

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Courtesy of Tajanea Allen
PHOTO: One-month-old Kamiya Johnson was diagnosed with Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) this month.
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The baby's mother, Tajanea Allen, said Kamiya is back home and that the two men are her heroes.

\"He's a hero, he's my hero. He's my daughter's hero. He's a hero, like I would do anything for the man,\" said Allen. \"The man is a hero, he saved my daughter.\"

Here is the bodycam video (referenced earlier) of Officer Richard DuChaine saving the life of a 1-month-old girl.

DuChaine was with his partner, Officer Charles Owen, Thursday when they were the first to arrive to a call for a baby who wasn't breathing.

Outstanding, officers! pic.twitter.com/5o8C6r95Wp

— kcpolice (@kcpolice) November 7, 2022

DuChaine and Owen said they were just fulfilling their duty.

\"We don't feel like heroes. We just feel like we did something good,\" said Owen.

DuChaine added, \"We don't do this job to be called heroes. We do this job to preserve life and ... just overall, just protecting the people of the city.\"

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