She died of septicemia, blood poisoning.
Someone stuck a dirty needle into her? How else do you infect blood?
Influenza virus targets the cells that line the respiratory tract.
As those cells die or become disabled, the lungs become an hospitable environment for bacteria, most deaths after influenza are caused by secondary bacterial infections which enter through the respiratory tract and cause pneumonia, septicemia, and sometimes death.
Most people who get flu will recover in a few days to less than two weeks, but some people will develop complications (such as pneumonia) as a result of flu, some of which can be life-threatening and result in death.
Sinus and ear infections are examples of moderate complications from flu, while pneumonia is a serious flu complication that can result from either influenza virus infection alone or from co-infection of flu virus and bacteria. Other possible serious complications triggered by flu can include inflammation of the heart (myocarditis), brain (encephalitis) or muscle (myositis, rhabdomyolysis) tissues, and multi-organ failure (for example, respiratory and kidney failure). Flu virus infection of the respiratory tract can trigger an extreme inflammatory response in the body and can lead to sepsis, the body’s life-threatening response to infection. Flu also can make chronic medical problems worse. For example, people with asthma may experience asthma attacks while they have flu, and people with chronic heart disease may experience a worsening of this condition triggered by flu.
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You can get septic shock from flu/pneumonia. This is what leads to the swift death.
I can’t read the entire article. These days they are trying Vitamin C to deal with it. Don’t know if they tried it in her case.
“”””””””””She died of septicemia, blood poisoning.
Someone stuck a dirty needle into her? How else do you infect blood?”””””””””””””””””””””
My adult son has terminal brain cancer. He just spent the last five days in the hospital due to a blood infection. It is very serious stuff.
It is not easily detectable especially in someone who is quite young like the girl in this story.
Any infection anywhere in the body can spread to the blood stream. Pneumonia, UTI, abscess, Cholecystitis, etc etc etc etc.