Autopsy complete on 19-yr-old who died from unidentified respiratory illness involving bleeding lungs

[Emily]

http://www.roanoke.com/news/1846519-12/family-hopes-autopsy-explains-radford-mans-mysterious-death.html

Family hopes autopsy explains Radford man's mysterious death

Dustin Hayth, 19, died after returning to Radford from a vacation in Myrtle Beach, S.C.

by Matt Chittum
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
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Dustin Hayth, an apparently healthy 19-year-old, died about 6 a.m. Tuesday at Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital of an unidentified respiratory disease he first complained about less than two days earlier.
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At one point, his fever reached 106 degrees.

But, his father said, staff at the Roanoke hospital found the fluid on his lungs was blood.

Both parents said the Roanoke doctor was perplexed by the finding.

?He said it looked like somebody who had been in a fire and breathed in real hot air in his lungs,? John Hayth said...

ETA:
The first report said he fell ill on vacation in Myrtle Beach, SC, and a young nephew had fallen ill with pneumonia first.

http://www.roanoke.com/news/1842980-12/radford-man-dies-following-brief-mysterious-illness.html

 

[Emily]

Re: Autopsy being done on 19-yr-old who died from unidentified respiratory illness involving bleeding lungs

Re: Autopsy being done on 19-yr-old who died from unidentified respiratory illness involving bleeding lungs

http://www.roanoke.com/news/1980809-12/report-pneumonia-killed-radford-man-19.html

Report: Pneumonia killed Radford man, 19
by Matt Chittum

Monday, June 3, 2013

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Hayth?s father, John Hayth, received the autopsy report Friday and said it lists the cause of death as pneumonia and staphylococcus aureus, a common bacterial infection...
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Dustin Hayth was an avid outdoorsman and a former high school baseball player and wrestler. Family and friends were stunned that an apparently healthy young man could be taken so quickly. A doctor told them his lungs looked like those of someone who had inhaled superheated air in a fire, they said. Given all the circumstances, they expected the culprit to be something rare or exotic...