Does Teens Apparent Flu Deaths Spark Parental Concern with Health Officials Investigating?
South Bend girl’s death sparks concern about H1N1 Originally printed at http://www.wsbt.com/news/local/63707707.html SOUTH BEND ― Local doctor’s offices and health clinics have been flooded with calls from people concerned about the flu after the death of a South Bend sixth-grader on Tuesday. Mercedes Lewis, 11, was admitted to the hospital Monday with the flu. Health officials are investigating to determine whether she had H1N1 and if it was, in fact, the flu that killed her. The South Bend Clinic is taking anywhere from 100 to 300 calls an hour from concerned parents and other patients. Doctors say there is reason to take the flu seriously, but certainly not to panic. Dr. Jesse Hsieh works for the South Bend Clinic and says the H1N1 virus has actually been in the community for about a month, and that most influenza type A cases are H1N1. But he said it has gone under the radar because most cases are mild ― no w
Teens’ Apparent Flu Deaths Spark Parental Concern FREDERICK, Md. – The deaths of two Maryland teenagers had been atrributed to complications related to the flu, sparking concern among parents. Ian Willis, a 13-year-old student at Urbana Middle School, died last week. The boy’s father, Robert Willis, says it still feels like a bad dream he can’t wake up from. His healthy, active, video game-loving son came down with the flu earlier this month. Less than a week later, on Thursday, Feb. 19, Ian Willis died at Children’s Hospital. “You don’t expect a healthy 13-year-old boy have that kind of decline, in a matter of hours — literally that’s what happened,” Willis said. “That’s been the most difficult thing for us to understand: it was the flu.” It’s frighteningly similar to the case of 15-year-old Zachary Weiland, a tenth grade student at Mount Airy Christian Academy, died Sunday at Johns Hopkins University Hospital in Baltimore. “This was something that just came out of nowhere and zapped
FREDERICK, Md. – The deaths of two Maryland teenagers had been attributed to complications related to the flu, sparking concern among parents. Sources: http://www.news8.net/news/stories/0209/598683.
