Liam Bowes, suffered from flu-like symptoms for two weeks.
A Durban mother is urging parents not to dismiss flu-like symptoms after her eight-year-old son died following a rapid deterioration in his health.
Carla Bowes, of Sydenham, told POST her son Liam Bowes, a Grade 2 pupil at Charles Hugo Primary School, battled flu-like symptoms for nearly two weeks before he died last Wednesday.
Liam initially developed a high fever, but his condition worsened as he began coughing, vomiting and suffering from diarrhoea.
"He wasn't eating or drinking and became extremely weak," Bowes recalled.
