# @usatoday on Instagram

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- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/70849505-usatoday-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-09-22T13:11:27.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** USA TODAY (@USATODAY) — https://gondola.cc/USATODAY

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A simple UTI can turn deadly during menopause.​
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After 78-year-old Roselin Shankland was found struggling to breathe, her pulse dropped to 34 beats a minute. Her blood pressure collapsed. 

By the time she reached the hospital, a urinary tract infection had spread to her bloodstream. Her organs were shutting down. Within hours of arriving, she died from sepsis.​
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Her death was the devastating end of a common health threat for women after #menopause, despite it being often preventable. Most women aren't offered vaginal estrogen, which can cost as little as a few dollars each month, even though medical groups have recommended it for years.​
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Read what's behind this lapse in women’s healthcare and what can be done to help more of them at the link in usatoday's bio.

📸: Zack Wittman, for USA TODAY

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