Expert Lists Gene Hackman's Wife Betsy Arakawa Symptoms before Death

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Here is the deal ... Santa Fe authorities on Friday shared the shocking revelation that Betsy Arakawa likely died a week before Gene -- and it was the rare virus spread by rats and mice that killed her.

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00:00It is relatively quick on the order of days to a week to two weeks so you know

00:08similar to when someone gets influenza. So most people get influenza particularly

00:12if they're not vaccinated. They can get a fever, headache, aches and chills and then

00:18if they develop difficulty breathing, shortness of breath. One of the best tests

00:23to see if you have difficulty breathing is by walking up a flight of stairs. If

00:28you're normally not short of breath after walking up a flight of stairs and

00:33suddenly you are short of breath after walking up a flight of stairs, that's a

00:37serious sign that your body's not getting enough oxygen and that's a sign

00:41that you should get further medical attention. So you know on the order of

00:46days to a week after someone's exposed and infected they can progress fairly

00:52quickly. She may have been struggling you know for many days and been you know

00:56progressively short of breath and experienced you know lightheadedness,

01:00dizziness, shortness of breath when she exerted herself and walked around and

01:07for you know whatever reasons did not pursue you know additional medical

01:12attention. I mean it's important if you're living with someone who's

01:15experiencing you know chest pain, nuances, shortness of breath to get medical

01:21attention. We learned that lesson in COVID right that people who develop

01:26respiratory breathing symptoms the earlier they would seek medical

01:31attention the more likely they were to survive. So you know we don't know why

01:36she may have not pursued medical attention earlier but in those you know

01:41last moments she would have become unconscious and then you know not

01:47ability to you know drink or take in fluids and you know pass relatively

01:52quickly.

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