When children bring home germs from school, most of the time the sickness runs its course through families and everyone is back on their feet in a week or two.<\/p>\n
But for Brian Dean, things were different.<\/p>\n
When his children brought home the flu, the father-of-two caught the infection, went to the hospital and never came home.<\/p>\n
Now his wife Sandra Dean is desperate for answers.<\/p>\n
“I was the last to come down with it, but Brian had a worse case of it than any of us did,” she said.<\/p>\n
Watch the full story in the video player above.\ufeff<\/p>\n
Statement from the Coroners Court<\/p>\n
On 11 August 2025, the coroner determined not to hold an inquest as part of the investigation into the death of Brian Dean.<\/p>\n
The coronial investigation remains ongoing. <\/p>\n
As this is an active investigation, no further comment can be made at this time. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When children bring home germs from school, most of the time the sickness runs its course through families…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62561,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-62560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}