An abnormal victim of the flu, at the age of only 12. It is the sad information shared by our colleagues in Oueest-France, this Monday, January 27. The victim lost his life on Sunday, when she had been suffering for a week. It was his parents who found him inert in his room in Saumur (Maine-Et-Loire).
“He died of pneumonia after an influenza state,” said Alexandra Verron’s prosecutor, after an autopsy of the victim. A frequent flu complication is pneumonia, an attack on this crucial respiratory organ.
The press title specifies that the girl had consulted a doctor during the week. When her parents found her, they asked for help that they tried to revive her, when she was in cardiac arrest when they arrived. Transported to the pediatric emergencies of Angers University Hospital, it did not survive.
An intense flu epidemic
The Regional Health Agency (ARS) confirms that the situation in the front of the flu is particularly difficult. Several cases and serious cases that penalize hospital activity and, in particular, emergency services.
“The week of January 13, 2025 shows ascending indicators in the appeal to the influenza syndrome in children under 15, you acts doctors for influenza syndrome all ages and emergency passes for influenza syndrome all The ages that increased again, after a decrease, observed the previous week, “said the Ars of the Loire Pays.
In its January 22 bulletin, public health noticed an “excess of death all ages combined.” However, this referred to “mainly 65 or more.” Populations with the greatest risk of dying of this infection are those suffering from comorbidities or older people. But the cases of children killed by these epidemics are regularly identified on epidemics, as was the case in 2022 or 2018.
Source: BFM TV
