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Flu raises risk for more severe infection – sepsis

By CBS News  
   January 30, 2015

Maya Cargile is a healthy eighth grader, but four years ago she almost died after a battle with the flu led to sepsis. "Anything that could possibly be painful or could be wrong, was wrong," Cargile told CBS News. She had developed a fever of 104 and was lethargic. Her mother, Lisa Cargile, took her to the hospital. "She wasn't breathing on her own; her blood pressure dropped, and that was when she was had to be put on life support," Lisa Cargile told CBS News. At that point, doctors put her in a medically induced coma for three days.

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