[Hildy]

Here it is:

Mr. Henson, creator of "Sesame Street" and "The Muppet Show," developed flulike symptoms in May 1990. Four days later, his condition worsened enough that he went to the hospital. He died 20 hours later, of complications of pneumonia caused by an aggressive group A streptococcal infection. Despite antibiotics, the infection caused his heart and kidneys to fail.

[nuconvert]

Thanks for looking that up.
Here's what the article says:


"Sepsis typically starts as a bacterial infection that can originate from pneumonia,..."

He could have acquired sepsis secondary to the primary infection which caused the pneumonia. It's up to the coroner to decide what killed him. You'd have to know what he wrote on the death certificate.