Dengue — India
A 24-year-old college student RG died in Kolkata last week. According to news reports, doctors at a Salt Lake hospital found that RG had had a platelet transfusion at a nursing home where he had been previously admitted with dengue. The doctors found that the student suffered blood infection and acute lung injury that led to septic shock and multi-organ failure. They also said that his platelet count had not dropped enough to warrant the transfusion of 18 units of blood that he received at the
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