As cold and flu season approaches, experts at Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital in Geneva are raising awareness about the signs and symptoms of sepsis, a life-threatening full-body response to an infection. Sepsis can cause many problems in the body that can lead to tissue damage, organ failure or death if not treated.
The U.S. and local hospitals are seeking to promote greater awareness about sepsis and better combat what is an immune response to infection that can result in chills, rapid breathing, confusion and sometimes death.
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