At every social event I’ve been to the past 3 months, somehow somebody always brings up the same bleeping conversation – what are the symptoms of swine flu aka H1N1 – and we’re not talking R2D2′s little robot brother here 
I’ve seen 3 lab confirmed cases. In each case the unlucky swiney was coughing uncontrollably, had a fever, and were under 40y old. Apparently older folk had their dose of the Swine Flu back in the 70′s when it was called ‘Asian Flu’ (which today wouldn’t be PC). My parents remember coming down with it themselves. So they developed immunity. So we’re seeing Swine more in youth. That’s what separated them in my mind from garden variety common colds. One twenty something was coughing so badly he looked like a beet, and another dispensed with even bothering to cover the mouth with each cough. Thanks for sharing.
Bottom line… if you see somebody with:
- An uncontrollable cough.
- It’s dry.
- And they’ve got fever…
And you haven’t got your H1N1 vaccine yet, exit the room!
And you get sudden onset of symptoms, too. You’re fine in the morning and by mid afternoon, you feel like a truck hit you. At the clinic we compared notes and arrived at two more criteria 1) they’re wearing slippers into the clinic and 2) they’re crying.
What did you want to know about H1N1 Swine Alexis?