Alabama boy, 11, dies from severe flu complications after brain swelling

An 11-year-old boy died after one week of hospitalization from severe flu complications including brain swelling and respiratory failure.

In Hueytown, Alabama, an eleven-year-old boy named Jace Watkins died in late December after influenza moved through his body with a speed and ferocity that no one around him had anticipated. He had no serious underlying conditions, had told those close to him that he felt fine, and yet within days he was in an intensive care unit with a swelling brain and failing breath. His death is a quiet, devastating reminder that familiar illnesses can still carry ancient and indiscriminate power — and that the line between ordinary sickness and catastrophe can be crossed without warning.

Alabama boy, 11, dies from severe flu complications after brain swelling

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