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Source: http://www.thelocal.fr/page/view/shocking-death-raises-fears-about-trivial-flu#.URQ4ouhpehc
23-year-old dies in deadly French flu epidemic
Published: 07 Feb 2013 14:48 GMT+01:00 | Print version
Updated: 07 Feb 2013 17:28 GMT+01:00
...It took four days of suffering before Arnaud Bigerel finally succumbed to the flu on Sunday afternoon in his parents? home in Val-et-Ch?tillon, near the northern French city of Metz.
His distraught parents are struggling to comprehend how a fit young man could fall victim to a common virus that comes and goes every winter. According to the family of the young postman, medical professionals repeatedly dismissed their concerns about the severity of the symptoms between the onset of his illness on January 30th and his death on February 3rd
?They did not take the flu seriously, but it kills," said Bigerel?s father, in an interview with RTL radio on Thursday.
Even after a sudden and brutal deterioration in his condition on Sunday, and despite making ?three or four? emergency calls that day, the young man?s desperate father was told ?Don?t worry, it?s not serious, it?s just the flu,? according to a report on TF1 television...
23-year-old dies in deadly French flu epidemic
Published: 07 Feb 2013 14:48 GMT+01:00 | Print version
Updated: 07 Feb 2013 17:28 GMT+01:00
...It took four days of suffering before Arnaud Bigerel finally succumbed to the flu on Sunday afternoon in his parents? home in Val-et-Ch?tillon, near the northern French city of Metz.
His distraught parents are struggling to comprehend how a fit young man could fall victim to a common virus that comes and goes every winter. According to the family of the young postman, medical professionals repeatedly dismissed their concerns about the severity of the symptoms between the onset of his illness on January 30th and his death on February 3rd
?They did not take the flu seriously, but it kills," said Bigerel?s father, in an interview with RTL radio on Thursday.
Even after a sudden and brutal deterioration in his condition on Sunday, and despite making ?three or four? emergency calls that day, the young man?s desperate father was told ?Don?t worry, it?s not serious, it?s just the flu,? according to a report on TF1 television...