sepsis

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Among the children who died from flu last season, the most common complications experienced before death were shock or sepsis, pneumonia, acute respiratory distress syndrome, seizures and damage to the brain.

From Los Angeles Times

The criminology student thought she had flu in her first year at college - but when her temperature soared, the GP suspected she might have sepsis.

From BBC

Doctors discovered Morgan had a severed bowel and had developed sepsis.

From BBC

The care given to a 45-year-old man with disabilities who died from sepsis after not being given the correct medication for 34 hours has been described as a "shambles" by his mother.

From BBC

She was unable to drive at all for 12 years after a serious injury, which led to life-threatening sepsis and the amputation of her leg.

From BBC