A teenager in the United Kingdom died from an unfortunate missed diagnosis of tonsillitis. Apparently, her primary care doctor thought she had swine flu and was prescribed tamiflu... an anti-viral medication.
For bacterial tonsillitis, treatment is with anti-bacterial antibiotics like amoxicillin, penicillin, etc.
The tonsil infection spread into her blood, seeded her lungs, and eventually caused multi-organ failure and death.
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Wednesday, 3 November 2010
Teenager Dies From Tonsillitis
Posted on 15:24 by Unknown
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