A SCHOOL girl died just one day after being diagnosed with flu and strep throat, according to officials.
Sable Paige Gibson, 10, was given a diagnosis on Tuesday morning and by the afternoon, her illnesses had caused her to go into cardiac arrest.
She passed away the next day.
In a Facebook post, Sable’s mum, Holly Rauch Gibson said that her little daughter was airlifted to Cincinnati Children’s Hospital “but it was too late”.
“Our hearts are completely broken.”
According to Plain Dealer, Sable is one of three other children to die from flu in the state.
A 13-year-old girl and three-year-old boy both passed away earlier this month.
Here in the UK, thousands of flu victims have been rushed to hospital for lifesaving treatment this winter – despite far fewer cases being seen by GPs.
And medics have warned that this year’s flu strain is proving to be more lethal than previous years.
It’s already claimed almost 200 lives over the past four months, with younger adults and pregnant women being worst affected.
Worldwide, the flu results in three million to five million cases of severe illness and 291,000 to 646,000 deaths annually, according to the World Health Organization.
Experts warned that the main issue was that people aren’t having flu jabs.
So, why does flu kill?
Well, it’s not actually the flu itself that kills you, it’s your body’s attempt to try to heal itself that does the damage.
“Dying from the flu is not like dying from a bullet or a black widow spider bite,” Amesh Adalja, an infectious disease physician at the Johns Hopkins University Center for Health Security told Live Science.
“The presence of the virus itself isn’t going to be what kills you. An infectious disease always has a complex interaction with its host.”
The virus enters your body and starts to hijack human cells in the nose and throat to make copies of itself.
That then triggers a massive response by your immune system which starts flooding the body with white blood cells to try to defend itself.
In most healthy adults, our systems can successfully fight off infection within a few days or weeks but in some people, the immune system response is too strong and it can destroy so much tissue in the lungs that they can no longer deliver enough oxygen to the blood.
In Sable’s case, however, her flu led to her developing strep throat, a bacterial infection of the respiratory tract that can potentially spread to other parts of the body.
When that happens, it can lead to septic shock – a life-threatening, body-wide inflammatory response that damages multiple organs.
Around a third of people who die from flu-related causes pass away because the virus overwhelms their immune system. Another third die from secondary bacterial infections like strep.
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Most flu-related deaths tend to happen in kids or the elderly – both of whom are uniquely vulnerable.
CHildren haven’t got fully matured immune systems and so they might not respond perfectly.
School officials in Ohio have been asking members of the community to wear pink in memory of Sable and in a Facebook post, said that they’ve been ensuring that counsellors are available to Sable’s classmates.
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