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Posted: 2:41 p.m. Friday, Feb. 1, 2013
Child?s death from flu third in the area
By Jill Kelley
Staff Writer
MIAMISBURG ?
A 14-year-old Miamisburg boy who died Thursday due to complications from influenza is the third person in the area to die from the flu in the last few weeks.
Tyler Sensenbrenner, an eighth-grader at Miamisburg Middle School, was described by his family as a ?very healthy child.? He came down with the flu Jan. 23 and his condition evolved into sepsis, which is the presence of bacteria in the blood. He died at Cincinnati Children?s Hospital Medical Center.
?He had multiple medical issues because of the flu-associated illness,? said Bill Wharton of Public Health ? Dayton and Montgomery County.
Wharton said this was the first flu-related Montgomery County death this year, and the first pediatric-related death attributed to the flu in the county since those records became reportable in 2009...
Posted: 2:41 p.m. Friday, Feb. 1, 2013
Child?s death from flu third in the area
By Jill Kelley
Staff Writer
MIAMISBURG ?
A 14-year-old Miamisburg boy who died Thursday due to complications from influenza is the third person in the area to die from the flu in the last few weeks.
Tyler Sensenbrenner, an eighth-grader at Miamisburg Middle School, was described by his family as a ?very healthy child.? He came down with the flu Jan. 23 and his condition evolved into sepsis, which is the presence of bacteria in the blood. He died at Cincinnati Children?s Hospital Medical Center.
?He had multiple medical issues because of the flu-associated illness,? said Bill Wharton of Public Health ? Dayton and Montgomery County.
Wharton said this was the first flu-related Montgomery County death this year, and the first pediatric-related death attributed to the flu in the county since those records became reportable in 2009...