tetano
Editor, Senior Moderator
Seasonal influenza may not grab headlines as influenza pandemics do, but we should be equally careful about staying healthy during the flu season.
TEN years had passed since Dr Ginni Marsberg woke up with flu for the first time, but she remembered clearly how it felt. ?I felt like I was hit and run over by a truck. I could not work, and I could not get out of bed,? she said.
The few days she needed to recover was significant, because as a mother and a general practitioner who runs her own clinic, pens a magazine column, and serves as a medical advisor for a radio and morning TV show in Australia, she is not used to taking sick days.
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?Although we are in the post-pandemic phase, the virus is still there,? Dr Lee said. ?Up till today, we still get patients who are admitted with severe pneumonia as a result of A(H1N1) infections,? he noted.
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http://thestar.com.my/health/story.asp?file=/2011/9/18/health/9361167&sec=health
TEN years had passed since Dr Ginni Marsberg woke up with flu for the first time, but she remembered clearly how it felt. ?I felt like I was hit and run over by a truck. I could not work, and I could not get out of bed,? she said.
The few days she needed to recover was significant, because as a mother and a general practitioner who runs her own clinic, pens a magazine column, and serves as a medical advisor for a radio and morning TV show in Australia, she is not used to taking sick days.
...
?Although we are in the post-pandemic phase, the virus is still there,? Dr Lee said. ?Up till today, we still get patients who are admitted with severe pneumonia as a result of A(H1N1) infections,? he noted.
...
http://thestar.com.my/health/story.asp?file=/2011/9/18/health/9361167&sec=health