A PREGNANT beauty blogger and her unborn baby have died from dengue fever just days after sharing a worrying symptom.
Influencer Sofia Amorim, 22, was seven months into her pregnancy when died from multiple organ failure in her native Goiania, Brazil.
NewsflashPregnant influencer Sofia Amorim, 22, has died of dengue fever[/caption]
NewsflashThe Brazilian blogger had been sharing snaps of her baby bump on social media[/caption]
NewsflashShe died on Wednesday in Goiania, Brazil[/caption]
Medics in the Brazilian town desperately tried to save her on on Wednesday.
Friends say Sofia, who had been sharing snaps of her baby bump with her followers, had earlier complained of being short of breath.
One friend, who preferred not been named, according to local media, explained: “She was very short of breath, so they thought it was anxiety.
“On Tuesday afternoon, they found out it was dengue and went to ‘listen’ to her lungs. They were full of water. At around 10pm, they had to intubate her.”
They added: “The baby had already died in her belly in the early hours of the morning, they didn’t deliver her immediately because her platelets were very low, and she could have lost too much blood.
“The cesarean section was the last resort to try to save her life.”
Local media said that she had begun to feel ill on 22nd March and just four days later medics confirmed she had contracted dengue fever.
The virus is a major health concern all over South and Central America.
Brazil’s Goias State Department of Health says there are currently 72,747 confirmed cases of dengue fever, a massive 257 per cent increase from last year.
The fever is caused by a virus transmitted by Aedes aegypti mosquitoes and is the world’s most deadly bug spread to people by insects, according to experts.
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