Now Reading: NDTV outlines early H1N1 warning signs and how they differ from a cold
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NDTV outlines early H1N1 warning signs and how they differ from a cold
NDTV has published a first-day symptom guide meant to help readers separate H1N1 infection from an ordinary cold. It lists a sudden fever, often high-grade and above 100 degrees Fahrenheit or 37.8…
NDTV has published a first-day symptom guide meant to help readers separate H1N1 infection from an ordinary cold. It lists a sudden fever, often high-grade and above 100 degrees Fahrenheit or 37.8 degrees Celsius, along with chills, shivering, severe body aches, headache, extreme fatigue, a dry cough, a sore throat, a runny or blocked nose and loss of appetite, symptoms that can also appear with a cold in the opening hours. Dr Sandeep S. Reddy, an infectious-diseases consultant at Ramaiah Memorial Hospital in Bangalore, is quoted saying both illnesses irritate the same nose, throat and airway tissue on day one, when the immune system has barely responded, and that the real difference shows up in how fast symptoms escalate rather than in which symptoms appear. NDTV also cites an Indian genomic surveillance study in which more than one in five patients with influenza-like illness tested positive for Influenza A(H1N1) pdm09. It does not detail the prevention measures the article references.
Indian Opinion Analysis
The early overlap between H1N1 and a cold that Dr Reddy describes is real, so a symptom list alone cannot substitute for a diagnosis. Readers whose symptoms worsen quickly, or who fall into a higher-risk group, still need testing and clinical advice rather than judging themselves against a checklist. The genomic surveillance finding, that more than a fifth of influenza-like-illness patients tested positive for H1N1, is a reasonable basis for caution during the monsoon, though it reflects past testing rather than the size of the current outbreak. Whether NCDC publishes updated H1N1 case counts for this season will show whether that caution is warranted.
Source: www.ndtv.com
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