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Originally Posted by Patti  I wasn't too concerned, then an hour ago, my dtr's best friend texted her that she just had a patient that tested positive for swine flu. She works at a 24 hour immediate care facility 10 minutes away. I want more details. |
Please correct me if Im wrong, but unless they have a "immediate test kit" now that shows swine flu, doenst it take 24 to 48 hours to get a officially diagnosis??
We have a student here in upstate NY that went on vacation in mexico that they suspected she has swine flu, but it took 2 days to get the officially diagnosis cause they had to send the sample to a lab.
Im not super concerned right now, even though we have had several people in different counties around me being tested for it and one school has been closed through the weekend because of the one student I posted above about. (so far one person has only tested postive, others have tested positive for the normal flu that goes around every year) However if hits in my county or near my kids school I will be pulling them out untill it passes. My kids usually catch everything going around ( xcept the flu cause the are vaxed for it) and Im not taking any chances.
I do beleive that the media is blowing out of porportion some, however people do need to be aware of how big of a problem this can become.
I really hope that it passes quickly without too many fatalities..
