Healthy dad-of-three, 37, dies from flu

Mate Babic, who lived in Canberra, leaves behind his spouse Carla and their three sons, Luka, 3, Sebastian, 6, and Marko, 7.

Carla advised Daily Mail Australia that she contracted the virus final week and Mate began feeling unwell final Friday.

By Tuesday, he was so unwell that he made a Telehealth appointment with the GP however they advised him he would must be assessed in particular person.

Carla organized for an appointment the subsequent day and Mate went to remain in his dad and mom’ house to get some relaxation.

He had a horror evening of fever and sweats earlier than working himself a shower.

While the water was working, he walked over to the mattress the place he died within the early hours of Wednesday morning.

“It is just an absolute tragedy, I just don’t even know what to do. It doesn’t even seem real,” Carla stated.

“From Saturday morning where he was slightly unwell to Wednesday morning and he is gone.

“His parents got woken up to their place flooded and their son dead.”

Carla and the Babics’ three youngsters now face an unsure future as she will probably be pressured to promote their residence, which Mate was within the strategy of constructing.

Mate additionally didn’t have any life insurance coverage and subsequent to no superannuation as he spent most of his profession working for himself and didn’t pay himself tremendous.

“It is crazy a six-foot-four, healthy man could pass away from influenza B, it is like we are living in the 18th century, it is like the plague,” Carla stated.

A GoFundMe web page has been arrange by associates to help the Babics because the household attempt to get their lives collectively following their tragic loss.

Australia is at present within the grip of a horror flu season which has to this point claimed at the least 107 lives.

Emma Schwab, 11, from Noosa on the Sunshine Coast, died final Thursday after contracting influenza B.

Originally printed as Tragedy as wholesome dad-of-three, 37, dies from flu