Late winters don't go well for people suffering from cancer.

It's rarely cancer that is the cause of death of a cancer patient, although that is always what is listed on the certificate. With cancer, and it's main treatment, chemotherapy, there is a side effect of a weakened, or destroyed, immune system.

When you have a late winter, many more bugs are passed around. Most healthy people don't have any ill effects from these and, at worst, get a touch of the sniffles.

Those who have a damaged immune system become very ill, very quickly from these viruses and bacteria. And with no way of fighting it off, their vital organs shut down and the end is swift

And that is the simple explanation of why so many deaths recently. It's been all over the country, but we only hear about the famous ones