Yesterday a very good paper came out in JAMA summarizing the Canadian ICU experience with H1N1 (what we're calling the Hiney Flu - cause it's a pain in the backside for ER docs). It seems to say that Canadian women who are getting this disease are getting much sicker than Canadian men with H1N1. So far, we've been seeing more women than men with severe ILI (influenza like illness) in our ER.
One strange thing that is happening is that there seems to be more people showing up without fevers but with a lot of other ILI symptoms including gastrointestinal upset. Whether these people come back as H1N1 positive is anyone's guess.
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