Advertisement

Drudge Retort: The Other Side of the News
Friday, August 01, 2025

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

More

Alternate links: Google News | Twitter

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

[image or embed]

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

Comments

Admin's note: Participants in this discussion must follow the site's moderation policy. Profanity will be filtered. Abusive conduct is not allowed.

More from the article ...

... 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 | 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

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 | Reply

The following HTML tags are allowed in comments: a href, b, i, p, br, ul, ol, li and blockquote. Others will be stripped out. Participants in this discussion must follow the site's moderation policy. Profanity will be filtered. Abusive conduct is not allowed.

Anyone can join this site and make comments. To post this comment, you must sign it with your Drudge Retort username. If you can't remember your username or password, use the lost password form to request it.
Username:
Password:

Home | Breaking News | Comments | User Blogs | Stats | Back Page | RSS Feed | RSS Spec | DMCA Compliance | Privacy

Drudge Retort