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South Australians issue Flu Alert

Re: South Australians issue Flu Alert

As for NZ hospitals asking people not to bombard the A&E Dept. with relatively minor ailments,they do this every winter and when medical staff are out on strike.Our Health services are ,as ever,underfunded to provide what the public has come to "demand".As in Australia and who knows where else,Emergency staff are SICK of people arriving with sniffles and minor mishaps that could be better dealt with by G.Ps in the community.Trust me,I worked in the system for years and have been an urgent admission quite recently,and have a good feel of what might be happening.There are many worried health professionals around but they are not quite ready to ask the receptionist to take a temperature before they will see you.Old Mrs Smith with the "ongoing rheumatics "is not likely to ask her Dr. about bird flu but I do.I can talk to anyone and usually do.
There is nothing here now but we are waiting and,hopefully,watching.
 
Re: South Australians issue Flu Alert

Chickenlittle - I agree that they roll this same story out every year.

I had the pleasure of spending half a day at Starship Emergency Dept last week (9am to 2pm), and none of the pts that walked in off the street were there with a respiratory infection. However, some may have come in by ambulance and we wouldn't have seen them. Emergency was remarkably quiet, and had been for the previous 24hrs (I'd phoned the night before to see whether it was hectic or not as we were considering taking our child in then).

It would be intruiging to know just what proportion of those admitted with LRTI actually have influenza. This is classically the time that the paed wards become overrun with RSV admissions, and that virus is tough on the elderly too.
 
Nasty flu bug on its way

Nasty flu bug on its way

Nasty flu bug on its way

08.07.2006
By JANE GARDNER

Health Reporter

jgardner@northernstar.com.au

AUSTRALIAN health authorities expect a severe strain of the flu, currently plaguing New Zealand, to reach the North Coast in a matter of weeks.

The A-New York strain, which has spread through New Zealand in the past two months, is a relatively new strain of Influenza A.

The Australian National Influenza Surveillance Report, released last month, suggests it is likely to arrive here in the next few weeks.

However, leading influenza expert Chris Burrell, Professor of Virology at the University of Adelaide, said there had been no recorded A-New York cases in Australia this year.
 
Re: South Australians issue Flu Alert

I can report that there is a nasty bug in the South Island.

Symptoms are:
Headache and aversion to bright lights.
Stomach ache.
Cough.
High temp some times.

Almost every child I know has it.
 
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