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Cape Town - A Johannesburg laboratory has isolated its first case of H1N1 (swine flu) for this season, but has said that it should not result in a high number of fatalities.
"It will probably not be a problem, but I know the whole world was up in arms about swine flu," Toga Laboratories operational lab manger Carlo Vos told News24.
He said that the international panic about swine flu was irrational.
"They overdid it because swine flu isn't really a problem, the normal flu, you know you get the same problems with normal flu as well. But it's the media that took it out of proportion."
According to Toga lab, the strain is identical to the previous outbreak, but Vos was concerned that it was found so early in the season.
Flu season has hit early this year with a sharp rise in the number of cases reported this week.
Flu cases usually increased at the beginning of June, but cases were reported as early as the beginning of this month, the National Institute of Communicable Diseases said.
Although the early start does not necessarily mean the rest of the season will be bad, the institute issued a stern warning to people with flu-like symptoms.
Institute deputy director Lucille Blumberg said: "Stay home, go to bed and drink fluids and you'll get better."
She warned that influenza was "not the coughs and colds where you have a snotty nose", but that complications could lead to pneumonia and admission to hospital if people were not treated early enough.
