Typhoon Lagoon Death from Natural Causes

[Sarangel]

The girl who died at Typhoon Lagoon in August seems to have died from natural causes. From the DailyPress.com:

A 12-year-old Newport News girl who died after collapsing at a Disney theme park in August succumbed to an unidentified viral infection that reached her heart, a Florida medical examiner said Tuesday.

Jerra Kirby was visiting Disney's Typhoon Lagoon on Aug. 4 with her aunt and cousins when she fell ill and passed out. Lifeguards performed CPR, but she was pronounced dead later that day at a hospital in Celebration, Fla.

An autopsy revealed that Jerra died of myocarditis, or inflammation of the heart. Jerra had enlarged lymph nodes, which often swell as a result of an infection, according to the District Nine Medical Examiner's Office, which covers Orange and Osceola counties.

Jerra could not have gotten the infection at the park, said Sheri Blanton, a spokeswoman for the medical examiner's office. "It would have to have been in her system for days," she said.

Blanton said the examiner's office was not able to determine what kind of virus struck Jerra or where she might have gotten it. The report does not mention whether Jerra had any symptoms before she collapsed at the pool, Blanton said. Lifeguards noticed Jerra lying on a ledge near the water, and asked if she was OK.

She said she was fine, got up, and then passed out, police said.

Jerra was an honor roll student at Hines Middle School and was excited to travel with relatives to Florida, her mother Stormetta Kirby said shortly after her death.

Stormetta Kirby could not be reached for comment Tuesday. She said in August that Jerra was a healthy child who had only suffered a few colds in her life.

 

[disneyholic family]

sad......

 

[Horizons16]

sigh

 

[tialucy]

We were at Typhoon Lagoon on this day. We saw the commotion but we didn't find out til later that someone had died. It send a shudder through me! How sad and tragic.

 

[annie1995]

Has anyone heard any updates on that little boy who died on Mission Space?

 

[TheWeasel]

Pre-existing condition

 

[Sarangel]

Here's the thread about the Mission Space death.