The hype exists. A majority of misdiagnoses have occurred. Now you know. That is all.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health/h1n1-swine-flu/few-cases-of-suspected-flu-test-positive/article1383357/Public health officials are warning the wave of H1N1 this fall is not nearly as widespread as suspected, leaving a significant number of Canadians who believe they have gained a ticket to immunity still vulnerable to the virus.
Last week in Ontario, fewer than one in four cases of suspected H1N1 tested positive in laboratory analysis. In British Columbia, the rate was one in three. The rest, based on samples, were mostly rhinovirus – the common cold – and enterovirus, a common flu-like bug.
In a year when Canada has collected record amounts of clinical data about influenza, the evidence is mounting that even doctors aren't very good at telling the difference between H1N1 and the common cold.
“We have been notoriously inaccurate,” said Michael Gardam, director of infectious disease prevention at Ontario's Agency for Health Protection and Promotion.
“This year is very different because we are swabbing way more than we ever would and we are more accurate than we've ever been before – and it's still not very accurate.”
Wine is sunlight, held together by water - Galileo Galilei
Un jour sans vin est comme un jour sans soleil - Louis Pasteur
Water separates the people of the world; wine unites them - anonymous
Wine is the most civilized thing in the world - Ernest Hemingway
Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried, with fewer tensions and more tolerance - Benjamin Franklin
