Treatment. Treatment of HLH depends on the cause, your age when the disease starts, and how severe the disease is. The acquired form of HLH may clear up when your health care provider identifies the cause and treats the disease. Familial-type HLH is usually fatal if not treated.
Mercury died in 1991 at age 45 due to complications from AIDS, having acknowledged the day before his death that he had contracted the disease. In 1992 Mercury was posthumously awarded the Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to British Music, with a tribute concert held at Wembley Stadium, London.
In the days before his death, his once lithe body now rendered extremely frail by Aids, Freddie Mercury made one final request of the woman he described as âthe love of my lifeâ. That she, and she alone, should collect his ashes after his cremation and dispose of them at a private location never to be disclosed.