[Blackhawk]

Never heard of a flu virus that kills in 24 hours. 48 hours maybe, more likely 72 - 96, but 24 seems a little aggressive for the flu. Unless the victim had a compromised immune system.

[Panzerlied]

I have heard of reports of people going from asymptomatic to dead in less than 24 hours in the 1918 pandemic. Rare, but not unheard of.

[DCBryan1]

A deadly flu outbreak in DC? Amongst lawyers, lobbyists, and politicians?

Help me out....is that bad news?

[Straight Vermonter]

The guy could have already been very sick when he met with Obama.

[perchprism]

24 hours from symptoms to death is usually a cytokine storm. Ironically it is caused by a too-healthy immune response.

[Polybius]

Never heard of a flu virus that kills in 24 hours.

The "Spanish flu" of the 1918 Pandemic could kill that rapidly. Fifty million people died.

Some victims died within hours of their first symptoms. Others succumbed after a few days; their lungs filled with fluid and they suffocated to death.