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Summary: Recognizing the swine flu in humans can be difficult, as it presents itself similarly to seasonal influenza with fever, body aches, cough, sore throat and stuffy nose. Get tested as soon as any of these symptoms arise with health information from an epidemiologist in this free video on the swine flu.
Dr. Paul Kamitsuka, M.D., DTM&H, is the epidemiologist for New Hanover Regional Medical Center in Wilmington, N.C. His field is internal medicine and his specialty is infectious...read more
"I'm Dr. Paul Kamitsuka, I'm the hospital epidemiologist at New Hanover Regional Medical center in Wilmington, North Carolina. The question is how to we recognize swine flu in humans. Well swine flu actually presents clinically very much like regular flu that we see year after year. It's a constellation of symptoms so typically the sudden onset of fever, generally a hundred degrees Fahrenheit or greater. As well as aches and cough sometimes sore throat and stuffy nose in addition. But primarily fever, aches and cough are the key symptoms.One of the things that's important to emphasize with regard to this is, if you should develop those symptoms it's very important to contact your health care provider early. Because there is therapy for the H1N1 swine influenza virus to antiviral medications work against it. And therefore one should avail of oneself potentially to those medications if the diagnosis is confirmed. So once again in terms of recognizing this disease in humans, just like any other flu, it's fever, muscle aches, cough and sometimes sore throat and nothing else."
eHow Article: How to Recognize Swine Flu in Humans
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