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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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... 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. ...
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 | Reply
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 | Reply
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 | Reply
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