Word: influenza
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...alive, she says, battling what doctors have told Hernandez may well be swine flu - but which was originally misdiagnosed. More than two weeks ago, her husband developed a severe cough and sore throat; and since those were the final days of Mexico's flu season, doctors gave him common influenza medicine. When he only got worse, he was admitted to a standard hospital for pneumonia treatment...
...World Health Organization changes name of to the H1N1 influenza A - yeah, that'll catch on with headline writers...
...there have been no confirmed cases of swine flu among the MIT student population, said Howard Heller, the chief of Internal Medicine at MIT, in an interview this afternoon. According to Heller, as of yesterday MIT has seen one confirmed case of Influenza A--a general species of the flu virus whose many variants include the standard "human flu" as well as the "H1N1 virus" known as swine flu--but it was unlikely that the person diagnosed had contracted swine...
According to Heller, Influenza A cases can be diagnosed in a matter of hours at University medical centers using a "rapid flu" test, but any further diagnosis had to come from the laboratory at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. The results of the state test could be days in coming, Heller said, but the case in question did not raise any red flags...
...normal to see cases of Influenza A throughout the year," he said. "The thing that would alarm us if we started to see a lot of influenza A occurring in a cluster, or if we saw influenza A occurring in a group of people with additional risk factors...