www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-51138859
Every year there are around 49 million cases of sepsis, with around
11 million deaths. Sepsis (sometimes known as blood poisioning) can be caused by a cut to your hand, a sore throat, a kidney infection, basically any infection, when your immune system goes into overdrive and starts damaging the organs. Children are most at risk - 40% of deaths are in children under five. There are around 48,000 deaths in the UK from sepsis every year.
When it doesn't kill a patient, it can still lead them needing to be ventilated, having limbs amputated and permanent organ damage.
While covid is a new and worrying illness, I wonder whether some of people's fear is down to the fact that they don't understand the general effect any sort of infection can have on people, no matter what it is. I think people don't realise that a simple infection that one person can shake off can lead to sepsis in another person and that it's very hard to predict when that'll happen.
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11 million people die every year of sepsis.
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TheDailyCarbuncle · 16/06/2020 17:18
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