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2018 - Flu Killed Daughter in Two Days
"In Sioux Falls, the news only got worse. Britt had Influenza A, a common strain. Sepsis, which can lead to organ failure, had set in. Doctors couldn't stabilize her, and suddenly, Britt’s heart stopped twice within a few minutes. At that point, the family had to make the heart-wrenching decision to stop lifesaving efforts."
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2018 - Bodybuilder dies of flu in 3 days.
"Kyler Baughman, from Latrobe, had gone home for the holidays with “a snotty nose,” his mother recalled in an interview earlier this week with WPXI. “We saw him the 23rd for our family Christmas get-together and we noticed he wasn’t feeling well,” Beverly Baughman told the news station."
"Soon after, on Dec. 28, Kyler died of “organ failure due to septic shock caused by influenza,” his mother told WPXI."
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2018 - died five days after leaving work early with flu symptoms
"Katharine — a graduate of Boston University who worked as a server at a local brewery — was taken to urgent care by her mother that same day. Though the facility didn’t take Katharine’s insurance, Liz felt deeply that her daughter needed care right then, so they stayed, and physicians prescribed antibiotics and gave her fluids through an IV to help with her dehydration.
Katharine felt better the next day, despite her coughing and back and stomach ache, but by Tuesday, her dizziness had worsened and she was having difficulties breathing.
“I wanted her to go to my doctor because she had never been to her doctor since she had never really been sick. We chatted by text several times that day, and it even got a little heated,” Liz recalls. “She’s writing back in capital letters telling me that I should just let her take the medicine, get sleep and she’d be better. She wanted to give the antibiotic a chance to work.”
Katherine sent her mother a text around 3:20pm saying she managed to lay down, and Liz wrote back to encourage her daughter to get sleep, and to contact her once she was awake. But, less than three hours later, the next call came from Katharine’s boyfriend, who found her unconscious and slouched over in their bathroom. He started chest compressions while waiting for paramedics to arrive.
“After about 10 minutes, he said to me, ‘They’ve called it,’ ” Liz says, “It was a total and complete shock.”
Katharine was pronounced dead on December 5, about three weeks before her 28th birthday and just days after she initially showed symptoms of the flu. Katharine had severe acute bronchial pneumonia, a complication of the virus.
The Centers For Disease Control says that even though the flu shot is not 100 percent effective, it can still lessen the chance that someone catches it by 10 to 60 percent.
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2017 - Diagnosed with the flu on Monday, died one day later.
"She checked into the hospital at 7:30 and by 3:25 she was gone," said Stephanie Gonzales, her aunt.
Alani Murrieta, the mother of two-year-old AJ and 6-month-old Jr., was very healthy. Her family says she hardly ever got sick except for maybe the common cold every now and then."
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1918 - died of flu in 3 days.
Walter Tiistola - "Father killed in a horse accident; hardship of paying inheritance tax; Brother died of flu in 3 days; Sickness, hospital bill, mortgage and life insurance." North Dakota state archives.
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