Risks and symptoms questions: H1N1, children focus of FAQs

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Can a child have H1N1 but only have symptoms of a cold?

H1N1 disease comes in different flavors. Some are mild, so just a mild cold or mild upper respiratory illness. Others can be associated with fever and feel like the typical flu-like illness and others can be more severe.

Could it be the flu with no fever?

There will be a number of children who will have the pandemic H1N1 virus and not show any fever.

What should you do when symptoms go from normal to severe?

Contact your physician, that would be the most important one. And sometimes you should go directly to the emergency room.

Can you catch the flu by breathing in the air of a fellow student who just sneezed next to you?

Absolutely, that's an excellent way to spread contagions, in particular, influenza. So respiratory viruses, depending on which virus it is, can spread by what we call large droplets and/or small droplets. Influenza can spread both ways, by large and small droplets. And so absolutely, coughing and sneezing is a good way to exchange your virus to somebody else.

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