Influenza Triggers Respiratory Failure: Hannah’s Temporary Lung

Cochabamba, May 21, 2025 (ATB Digital).- The Viedma Hospital in Cochabamba reports eight elderly adults hospitalized with an influenza condition and one who died during the weekend on confirmation, if he had this disease. The director of the Viedma Hospital in Cochabamba, Adela Amaya, indicated that patients are in isolation, so she urges the Cochabambina population to go to a health center to receive the influenza vaccine. Source: ATB Digital W…

🔊 Listen to this news A 46-year-old woman with pre-existing conditions has died in Oruro, becoming the third victim of influenza in the region. This information was provided by Leydi Martínez, head of Epidemiology at the Oruro Departmental Health Service (Sedes), on May 20, 2025. The patient who died had type 2 diabetes and obesity. She was admitted to the hospital due to a hip fracture. During her stay at the medical center, she began showing …

Influenza triggers respiratory failure: Hannah’s temporary lung

“I saw the X-ray of her lungs,” reports Hannah’s mother, Laura C., who is also a nurse. “And I knew straight away what it meant: all white. Basically no gas exchange at all anymore.” All the doctor said was ‘I’m sorry.’” Three-year old Hannah was being treated at the hospital in Chemnitz at the time, in February 2025, although really only for a small abscess. However, she started to develop severe… Source

A 46-year-old woman died in Oruro due to type A influenza complications, according to Dr. Laydi Martínez, head of the Epidemiological and Research Unit of the Departmental Health Service Oruro. The patient had initially been hospitalized for a hip fracture, but had symptoms of respiratory infection and had type 2 diabetes and obesity. Dr. Martínez reported that to date, 481 cases of suspected influenza have been recorded in Oruro, with 142 posit…