TORONTO — On New Year’s Day, a 24-year-old woman from Manitoba fell sick with the flu. Five days later, Joanne Ens died of sepsis — a condition that new analysis suggests is involved in one-in-five deaths worldwide.
“They had her in the back and they were trying to treat (her), but unfortunately she was in septic shock and she passed away that morning,” her husband, Dustin Ens, told CTV Winnipeg.
Sepsis is a life-threatening immune response that occurs when the body’s reaction to infection begins to damage its own tissue. Sepsis has been linked to a variety of health problems, including lung infections, urinary tract infections and is most common in bacterial infections.
In Canada, an estimated 30,000 deaths per year have been linked to sepsis.
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