A 47-year-old Australian mother of 13 lost her life due to a common disease that is raging in Australia. On June 10, 2024, Julie Theobald was admitted to the intensive care unit of a hospital in Melbourne. The Australian mother spent
two weeks in intensive care before dying.
Jessica Theobald, Julie’s daughter, wrote on the page
GoFundMe created for his late mother that the loss of his mother had been a shock. “We were all extremely shocked and our hearts broken by this newswe could never have imagined losing our mother so soon” she said.
She dies of a very common illness and leaves behind 13 children aged 7 to 31
Jessica said their mother leaves behind 13 extraordinary children, aged 7 to 31, and their father Billy. Let us remember that Julie Theobald was admitted to intensive care afterwards in Melbourne because of a simple flu which got worse. After this very common illness worsened, Julie contracted pneumonia.
According to her daughter Jessica, Julie Theobald suffered from
underlying health conditions. She said her mother was taken to the hospital on a medical plane, and that it was her mother’s first time on a plane.
A wave of winter flu that claims more victims than COVID
This mother’s case of the flu that kills comes as doctors sound the alert about a flu season
particularly long this winter in Australia. Professor Catherine Bennett told the Daily Mail
Australia : “I think everyone probably knows healthy young adults who end up in the hospital from the flu, so that’s something everyone needs to avoid“
She added that it is recommended to keep your distance when you are in the company of people you do not normally hang out with. “The flu continues to intensify. So it seems that Covid is give way to the flu in terms of dominant causes of
respiratory diseases potentially serious at present“, she clarified.
