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by fratty12345 3364 days ago
the article has inclompete details, i believe your right, they just wanted to title it "flue kills"

the one that raised a red flag, that it destroyed the organs, i never heard of a flu doing that. I was suspecting either she never had the flu, or she rarely had it to make the flu more dangerous for her, the mom even said she was never vaccinated for it. she could also had a comorbid condition, like immunosuppression, which the flu can kill her, or she had a secondary bacterial infection. there is no flu shot that will vaccinate for all flus, otherwise we dont need to keep making new ones every year, and there is many strains, that the vaccines might not work against. Flu viruses evolves way to fast to be a perfect vaccine, similar to how there is no HIV vaccine, it mutates to rapidly.