On Oct 23, 4:09 pm, Martin <m...@address.invalid> wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:08:57 퍝, Janet Baraclough
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>  wrote:
> >The message 
> >from Martin <m...@address.invalid> contains these words:
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> >> It is strange how many claim to have caught it in UK and Germany and how few
> >> have caught it in The Netherlands.
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> > According to the Dutch Institute of  Health
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> >http://www.rnw.nl/english/article/dutch-teenager-dies-h1n1
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> ><quote>
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> >" In the past week the numbers of people being admitted to hospital with
> >H1N1 has doubled. Most of them are younger than 65. This week, the
> >incidence was highest among babies and toddlers. Previous weeks have
> >shown a peak in hospital admissions among 15 to 24 year-olds. However
> >the group most in need of intensive care were the 5 to 14-year-olds."
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> "An official epidemic is reported when doctors see more than 55 people in two
> consecutive weeks with the disease out of every 100,000 people in the
> Netherlands. Health institute Nivel, which helped compile the figures, says
> between 5 and 11 October doctors saw 69 cases per 100,000 people, and the same
> number in the next week."
>
> http://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/healthtopics/Documents/091023_Influenza_...
> There are currently 24 patients with H1N1 in Dutch hopsitals including 4 in
> intensive care. The equivalent figure for England with around 3 times the
> population is 506 and 99.
> "Data includes all probable cases for England only. Does not include Scotland
> (380 cumulative hospitalisations), Wales (126) and Northern Ireland (346)."http://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/healthtopics/Documents/091023_Influenza_...
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> In the summer when tens of thousands were supposed to have the flu in UK and
> Germany the figure in NL was a bit over a thousand I think that figure was later
> greatly reduced.
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> >> In the NHS trust where a close relative works
> >> in England only one of the many claiming to have caught it actually had it.
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> > The official figures in the UK , are cases diagnosed by doctors and
> >deaths certified by doctors.  Nothing to do with patients
> >self-diagnosis.
>
> I thought that in UK there is a hotline for self diagnosis to avoid doctors
> being swamped by patients claiming to have the flu.
> I was referring to hospital staff in an NHS Trust, who claimed to have the flu.
> --
>
> Martin

There is Martin, one rings in and you will be diagnosed over the
phone.  I believe that there have been many such misdiagnosis and also
of course, there is a section of the British public who look on it as
excuse for a paid holiday by claiming symptoms and being told not to
return to work until all symptoms have disappeared.  The bad back
brigade will love it!

Judith