Health agency confirms flu death in southern Ohio- 15 yr. old

[Shiloh]

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Health agency confirms flu death in southern Ohio
Published: December 16, 2014 1:07PM

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) ? A wave of flu illnesses has forced some Ohio schools to shut down over the past week ? and one even asked parents if they could volunteer and to help disinfect the school while students were kept home.

The Ohio Department of Health confirmed the first flu-related pediatric death of the flu season, saying that a 15-year-old girl from Ironton in southern Ohio died on Nov. 29 after being admitted to a hospital.

Across the state, 456 people had been hospitalized with the flu this year compared with 135 cases at this time last year, the department said.

Schools in the Cleveland and Toledo areas have been closed over the past week because of the large number of flu illnesses...

 

[Emily]

Re: Health agency confirms flu death in southern Ohio- 15 yr. old

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UPDATE: Ohio Health Department Confirms Ironton Teen Died from Flu
Posted: Tue 11:32 AM, Dec 16, 2014
By: Rebekah Pewitt, Brad Myers

UPDATE 12/16/14 @ 11:30 a.m.
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Allison Eastham was rushed to the hospital on Thanksgiving Day. She was admitted for flu and double pneumonia and died the next day...

UPDATE 12/1/14 @ 11:15 p.m.
IRONTON, Ohio (WSAZ) -- Dozens gathered Monday in downtown Ironton to remember a local teen who died after contracting the flu and double pneumonia.
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Her friends are left, not only with a lost and empty feeling, but so many unanswered questions about why and how a seemingly healthy, normal girl could go so quickly.

One of Allison's relatives said there's still no official cause of death, but they believe there may have been some sort of underlying infection. Despite a multitude of antibiotics, nothing helped...