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Is it still safe to assume that any flu in our area is H1N1?
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Anonymous
| I looked on the CDC site and they stop at Oct. 10. At that point, it was almost exclusively H1N1 going around region 3 (us). Anyone know if this this still true? TIA. |
Anonymous
| A friend's child was diagnosed with the flu; the doctor said they weren't doing the h1n1 test anymore unless the child was hospitalized, but said they would assume it was and recommend the tamiflu. |
Anonymous
| a friends son has the regular flu right now not the swine. He was tested bc it happened 2 days after his regular flu shot. |
Anonymous
| Yes, it is safe to assume so. |
Anonymous
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There've been a few people posting lately that they or their kids have tested positive for flu, but it specifically wasn't swine flu (H1N1).
That seems weird to me, because I'm also looking at the CDC information -- granted for the whole country -- and I'm seeing 0 cases testing positive for seasonal flu A. If it is flu A, it is Swine flu, mostly, it seems to me. And I'm seeing something like .4% of the cases that test positive for flu, turn out to be flu B. So, I guess there's a tiny bit of Flu B seasonal flu going around (and i think flu B this year is more severe than swine flu, actually, in most peole! So nothing to discount! But still -- not a lot, if only .4% of all tested flu cases.) So, I think it is a fiar assumption that MOST cases of flu right now are swine flu. Howevere, in another two months, it'll probably run its course, and we'll probably see more of the traditional seasonal flu. (not that you asked that question) |
Anonymous
| Seasonal flu wont be hitting until December. Any flu like symptoms are basically classified as H1N1 since it's too early for the flu. |
Anonymous
| Thank you. I guess we have swine flu, then. |
Anonymous
What hit me like a tons of bricks in a story last night on NBC Nightly was that the tests for the swine flu are faulty. In one of the cases discussed on the show a pregnant woman was misdiagnosed and the hospital refused to give her tamiflu - only wanting to reserve it for confirmed cases of swine flu. Well of course she had the swine flu - but she is gone now, not around to raise her baby that was delivered before she died. The whole thing makes me heartsick. I would agree that most of what we are seeing now is swine flu. |
Anonymous
Feel better! Get well soon! How many of you have it? |
Anonymous
Flu A is a variant of H1N1, it IS NOT the swine flu. My son tested positive for the flu and NOT for swine flu. The CDC doesn't update in real time. Medical reporting methods are monthly or weekly, not instantaneous. I can tell you that there is 100% flu out there and that Flu A or B is NOT swine flu. If Flu A was swine flu we would not need a swine flu vax as Flu A is taken care of in this year's regular flu vax. |
Anonymous
This is 100% total and complete misinformation. Two people in my family tested positive for the flu, NOT SWINE FLU. |
Anonymous
Thanks. Two of us so far, but DC2 drank some apple juice with DC1's straw this evening before I realized what was happening, so it may be three soon. Ugh. |
Anonymous
No, H1N1 is a Flu A strain. There are other Flu A strains, but right now, the other ones aren't circulating that much, if at all. Yeah, sure, someone has to be in that .4% that had Flu B in the past week, and I suppose it was your son. But for the most part the flu that is going around right now is flu A, and it is Swine/H1N1. Look: http://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly . Look at the second chart on the page -- the results of the current week being reported (ending Oct. 10 2009)
Not a SAINGLE specimin tested was positive for H3 or H1 (the two seasonal strains of influenza A) Not a single one. .4% of the samples tested were Flu B. The others were Flu A / Swine flu (64%) or flu A "didn't subtype.) Sure some of the ones they didn't subtype COULD turn out to be seasonal flu A strain.... but if seasonal flu A were going around at all right now, surely ONE of the samples tested would have turned it up? Just ONE? Even .1% of all samples tested could have been seasonal flu A? But no. |
Anonymous
| According to the County Health Director in MoCo, there is no seasonal flu in the County. It's all swine flu. She testified today in front of the Council. |
Anonymous
I'm just rereading your post above, and I think you may have misunderstood what your were told by your child's doctor or nurse. It really doesn't matter, and certainly not to me, if your child had Flu A/2009 H1N1 (commonly called Swine Flu) or one of the other Flu A strains (H1 or H3, called "seasonal flu") or even Flu B. I'm glad he's feeling better and has recovered! But Swine flu IS a type of Flu A. If your child tests positive for Flu A there's a very strong chance he had swine flu. Just so you know. |