just curious but how did your doctor know it was h1n1 and not some other strain of flu? I have heard that doctors are diagnosing any kind of flu symptom as h1n1 and that is what is bumping the numbers up.
I included your similar question to the writer as well.
<I have heard that doctors are diagnosing any kind of flu symptom as h1n1 and that is what is bumping the numbers up.
And that’s assuming people go to the doc for a diagnosis. I’m a professor and we have to read a mandatory announcement re H1N1 for each class. The announcement requests that students NOT go to the doctor or health service simply to get a diagnosis, so as to not overwhelm the system. I imagine there will be a lot of folks w/H1N1 who won’t incur the expense of a doctor’s visit just to tell them they have the flu, so there will be lots of people who won’t know what variant of the flu they have.