Friday, August 01, 2025

Rare Flu Complication Is Rising in Kids, Doctors Warn

Acute necrotizing encephalopathy is deadly in more than a quarter of kids diagnosed with the inflammatory brain disease.

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Influenza-associated acute necrotizing encephalopathy can cause brain swelling and an extreme immune response.

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-- San Francisco Chronicle (@sfchronicle.com) Jul 30, 2025 at 12:00 PM

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... Severe flu seasons in recent years have brought to light a little-known danger of influenza infections in kids: a rare brain disease called acute necrotizing encephalopathy, or ANE.

It's a fast-moving condition usually triggered by the flu, causing sudden brain swelling. It's thought that the virus prompts the immune system to go haywire.

Affected children can go from having mild flu symptoms to seizures, coma or even death within days. Most are kids without any other health problems. ...

The doctors identified 41 cases over the past two flu seasons. Most children were around age 5. ...


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-31 11:02 PM

Acute necrotizing encephalopathy? Not to worry, RFK Jr is on top of this, like Allstate Insurance used to say: i.pinimg.com

#2 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-08-01 03:36 AM

We've been fighting flu for over a century and it's still here.
It's time to give up.
--Republicans.

#3 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-08-01 11:41 AM

This is not a problem. The result will be rising rates of death among those on the American right, for which they can easily blame someone else ...
-Chas. Darwin

#4 | Posted by catdog at 2025-08-01 10:41 PM

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