While it WILL kick your ass, the flu should not kill an otherwise healthy young adult.
1/2 gallon of water and 8 aspirin a day, staying in bed for a week, should kick any flu at that age group.
There must have been something else contributing.
I’m really scratching my head with this flu outbreak.
I need details and questions answered. How are these people dying within a few days - or even within 24 hours - of getting the flu ?!
Is their heart stopping or something ? I need to know what happens with this flu that is so different than any other flu I’ve suffered.
I haven’t taken my family out of the house in 2 weeks - literally - because everyone is sick with this. I wear a mask at the store and have sequestered the family. This is scary stuff !
It’s like Captain Trips or something.
Geez, I’m doing the flu all wrong. In bed for a week? That would kill me.
But it does. The theory is that the healthier immune system of young adults kicks into overdrive and starts attacking even healthy systems.
She died of pneumonia. A complication of the flu. She had type B flu which is not as severe as type A. Pneumonia can kill anyone if its not treated.
Many flu strains kill “young, healthy” people more often. Cytokine storms are key in flu mortality rates. The efficacy of Tamaflu is assumed in this article, though it has a poor record in reality. The entire “you have to take it the first day” means the majority of people won’t take it as directed—copay or not.