Air Force cadet’s cause of death blamed on rare bacterial infection
The 19-year-old U.S. Air Force Academy cadet who was found unresponsive in her dorm room in early September died from a rare bacterial infection “associated with a toxic shock-like syndrome,” a coroner has announced. Avery Koonce had been fighting a cough before dying on Sept. 4 in Colorado from “Paeniclostridium sordellii sepsis complicating parainfluenza laryngotracheobronchitis,” according…