Michigan boy dies-flu symptoms

This article made me sit up and notice, thanks for bringing it to everyones attention.  I am going to monitor saginaw's local paper for any other information, such as increased flu like symptoms, etc.

I am writing to the reporter

I wonder if he could have had a anyrisum that was not known about and the vomiting from being sick caused it to burst? I guess in the fall you do hear about a healthy kid dying of some wierd unknown genetic thing they have had, but they are saying this was flu like and whatever it is, if he went in on Friday and died on Sunday it was rapid. It is either genetic or we are in trouble.

Mach, my son plays soccer and soccer season just started.  I see geese on those fields all the time. Those kids are so aggressive kicking up the dirt. When I know that H5N1 is in Calif., He quits soccer.

songbird, did someone say the boy died from a ruptured diaphragm?

10-year-old football player dies after practice

 

September 6, 2006

 

A 10-year-old youth football league player died after his diaphragm was ruptured, an injury authorities say they suspect he received during practice.

 

An autopsy Tuesday showed that Logan M. Honsinger died from complications of a ruptured diaphragm, possibly caused by a football injury.

 

“We don’t know exactly how it happened or when it happened,” said Saginaw County Medical Examiner Kanu Virani. “We don’t know if it was when he was tackled or when he fell down.”

 

The county sheriff’s department is investigating.

 

Logan died Sunday at Covenant Emergency Care Center in Saginaw, reportedly after he became ill after a practice Friday, the Saginaw News said.

 

The boy was starting his first year in the Valley Youth Football League, which includes fifth- through eighth-graders from area schools.

 

Logan’s fifth-grade classmates at Ling Elementary School in Hemlock, about 90 miles northwest of Detroit, were shaken by his death, said Principal Gerald Madaleno.

 

“They’re trying, but it’s hard to understand,” he said.

 

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060906/NEWS99/60906006

The article doesn't state which flu like symptoms. It could have been fever and body aches which would be inline with an internal injury. I agree with mach's take: if this were H2H we would be seeing hospital overload. How terrible to loose a child, nothing worse in the world.

People die of the flu all the time.  This story should not be taken as an indication of H5N1.  Several years ago I went to the hospital after the two ender flu with a blood pressure of 56 over 43.  Luckily, they gave me IV's and I was on my way several hours later.  It just proves that the seasonal flu can be very deadly let alone H5N1.  We should all try to prepare the best we can, but don't jump to any conclusions about this article.  He may have had unknown heart problems or have been fatally dehydrated.