Every time a celebrity dies in unclear circumstances, speculation in the wild. Most of the news reports about the rock star Prince died yesterday suggested the flu may have claimed his life. "Could Flu causing the death of Prince? Yes. Here's why," read a Forbes title. Other media used his surprising loss to 57 to remind readers of these flu risk and how it kills. TMZ, the celebrity gossip e-zine, "several sources" who say prince, despite being a Jehovah's Witness, received a "shot save" for a drug overdose six days before his death. The conspiracy-minded also came out of the woodwork and suggested that it was the vaccine against the flu, how his plane made an emergency landing, or yes, it is actually not dead at all .
Of course, it is possible that the prince died of the flu, and one of its representatives last week told reporters that a bad fight with the disease explained his emergency landing in Illinois and a hospital visit. Perhaps, as some reports have ventured there was a link between epilepsy and flu that ended his life. (A PubMed search for "flu, epilepsy, mortality" has a meager 23 results). But in the absence of new data, the data indicate that influenza is an unlikely explanation unless it had an underlying health problem, such as heart disease, which is known to increase the risk of death influenza. And of course, the surest way to find a probable rather than a possible answer to his cause of death is to conduct an autopsy, which is reportedly in progress.
According to the most authoritative study published by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who analyzed the deaths of influenza in the United States 1976-07, support for over 65 suffers most high mortality by far, accounting for 87.9% of the deceased. (The study examines both flu and pneumonia deaths often related.) 19 to 64 age group was next at 10.6%.
A more granular study published by the American Lung Association found that mortality from influenza and pneumonia in 2013 was 8.3 per 100,000 people in the United States for 45-64 years and 107.4 per 100,000 for all 65 years old. From another angle, this year 6928 people in the 45 to 64 died from flu range. That's 81 million Americans in this age group. And keep in mind that many of those 6928 were of 57, which as you slice it, that means a few hundred people who were in their 57th year have died from the flu.
passing of Prince led BBC to go as far as making a history trend, "Why so many celebrities have died in 2016." a less satisfactory explanation: There are more famous than before. Or maybe there is more to rock stars of the baby boom generation ages simply.
flu, moreover, are not mentioned.
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