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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can someone from the medical profession answer this question... When a otherwise healthy child gets the flu and dies, are the deaths usually preventable? In other words, could the majority of the deaths have been prevented by earlier medical intervention? Or does the flu cause complications in otherwise healthy children that we just can't treat? Let's assume we are talking about kids over the age of about 5 as opposed to infants or very young children. [/quote] They are preventable in that they could have gotten a flu shot. The answer for if medical intervention after flu onset would have prevented death is complicated because there are many different paths that flu complications take on the way to death. Some of those complications can be treated, and some can not. [/quote]
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