“Very often, influenza leaves people extremely susceptible to bacterial infections. She would not have gotten pneumonia had she not been sick with the flu.”
indeed. exactly why she should have been x-rayed ...
indeed. exactly why she should have been x-rayed ...
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They should have and probably did listen to her lungs first as well as getting her oxygen level.
“exactly why she should have been x-rayed ...”
X-rays do not cure pneumonia. Most likely the influenza infection triggered her immune system into overdrive, her lungs filled with fluid (which IS pneumonia), and she died. This was the cause of death from the mutated virus of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic that killed an estimated 25 million people worldwide.