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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Shweta Sharma

Boston mother and marathon runner, 36, dies of the flu in tragic ‘one-in-a-million’ case

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A Boston family was left devastated after a young mother who was a successful athlete abruptly died of flu despite having no history of health issues.

Price Merepol McMahon, 36, from Wellesley, Massachusetts, died on Tuesday in a hospital where doctors called her a “one-in-a-million case of influenza”.

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