Entire family contracts swine flu
Getting treatment and getting better hasn’t been easy”
http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=news/local&id=7018069
“WAKE COUNTY (WTVD) — An entire family stricken with the H1N1 virus has been held up for days inside their Fuquay-Varina home afraid of making others sick.
“It’s scary, it’s awful,” H1N1 patient and mother Amy McGrady said.
Mom, dad, their kindergartner and even their 3-month-old has the H1N1 virus.
“We’re all running fevers and we’re all still contagious,” McGrady said.
Contagious, but committed to getting the word out about H1N1, they called their son’s school to warn other parents.
“We were kind of shocked at the response that the school system gave,” H1N1 Patient and father Shawn McGrady said.
Wake County declined to send out a notice -that’s the district’s policy.
The Wake County School System said the county Health and Human Services Department has advised it to treat H1N1 cases among students just like the regular seasonal flu.
“We just want to get the message out, that it is out there,” Amy McGrady said. “There are people who are suffering with it; we just don’t want them to have to go through what we did.”
They’ve endured typical flu-like symptoms and their infant had a fever of 103.
The McGrady family also said getting treatment was a challenge.
They said Tamiflu hasn’t been tested in children less than six months old, so for their son, there’s a health risk.
It took two pharmacies to fill his prescription. One had to turn the McGrady’s away, because their supply was on back order.
“People need to know what the challenges will be if they come down with it,” Amy McGrady said.”...
Autopsy: Football Player Died of Pneumonia
Posted: Sep 17, 2009 11:50 AM
Updated: Sep 17, 2009 12:00 PM
http://www.kptm.com/Global/story.asp?S=11150019
OMAHA (KPTM) - The Benson High School football who collapsed after practice and died had pneumonia, according to the Douglas County Attorney’s Office.
Preliminary autopsy results show that 16-year-old Wilson Vili had pneumonia in both lungs, also known as double pneumonia. Vili wasn’t feeling well last week and complained of a cold.
The findings also showed he had Streptococcus A, a form of strep throat.
Vili practiced Tuesday afternoon until about 5:30pm, and went to dinner with some friends. He collapsed shortly after and was taken to the hospital, where he later passed away.
The Benson football team will remember Vili at their homecoming game this Friday. Vili leaves behind his parents, a brother, and a sister, who are all originally from Hawaii.