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Lydia Stephens & Kate Lally

Woman, 24, died after having cold and flu symptoms

The heartbroken parents of a young school worker shared the final messages she sent from her hospital bed before she died.

Bethannie Booth died after falling unwell with cold and flu symptoms. The 24-year-old, from South Wales, first felt poorly on March 2 and her symptoms deteriorated rapidly over the next few days.

She was taken to hospital after struggling to breathe and was immediately taken into resuscitation, and then the intensive care unit where it was discovered her lung had collapsed as a result of a Strep A infection.

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