Mum of 13 dies after getting the flu

A parent of 13 has died pursuing a two-week wellness conflict successful intensive attraction aft catching the flu.

Julie Theobald, 47, caught a unspeakable flu and was rushed to a Melbourne infirmary — her archetypal clip connected a level — aft her information began to deteriorate.

The flu became pneumonia and exposed different underlying wellness conditions, her girl Jessica said successful a GoFundMe.

Mrs Theobald was successful the intensive attraction portion for 2 weeks earlier she passed away.

“Mum leaves down 13 astonishing children, ageing from 7 years to 31 years aged and her devoted husband/our Dad, Billy,” Jessica said.

“We’ve each been highly shocked and heartbroken of this news, we could person ne'er imagined loosing our mum this aboriginal on. This is our past accidental to springiness her the champion nonstop disconnected possible.”

Jessica said nary 1 ever likes reaching retired for assistance and the household didn’t expect to deed their $13,000 extremity but they were trying to lessen the load connected their father.

“No magnitude is excessively small if you are capable to assistance and if not delight stock to idiosyncratic that whitethorn beryllium capable to,” she said.

It comes aft New South Wales residents were warned past month of the “triple threat” of surging flu, Covid and respiratory syncytial microorganism (RSV) detections.

The latest NSW Health Respiratory Surveillance Report elaborate a 22 per cent leap successful radical presenting to infirmary exigency departments with flu-like illnesses.

NSW main wellness serviceman Kerry Chant said wellness authorities expected the flu figures to stay precocious for “several weeks to come”.

“Flu is rapidly expanding crossed the state,” she said.

Dr Chant besides urged Australians implicit 65 to get their escaped vaccination, with conscionable 52.4 per cent of radical successful the property radical presently vaccinated.