It is very difficult to distinguish the flu from other infections on the basis of symptoms alone. A doctor’s exam may be needed to tell whether you have developed the flu or a complication of the flu. There are tests that can determine if you have the flu as long you are tested within the first 2 or 3 days of illness.

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Health experts are warning parents against holding “swine flu parties” in the hope of infecting their children with the H1N1 virus.

Americans frightened by swine flu are snapping up two antiviral medicines that treat the disease, whether they have it or not.

These are a list of some of the questions you may want to ask a doctor about the swine flu.

A private school in Newberry, South Carolina has closed after some students returned from Mexico with flu-like symptoms.

A strange type of swine flu has been diagnosed in five people in California and two in Texas.

The Medical University of South Carolina said Thurday it’s concerned that parents may be mistakenly identifying symptoms of an illness that turns out to be the flu.

State health officials say influenza is spreading across South Carolina.

Influenza, or “the flu,“ has officially arrived in South Carolina, the state Department of Health and Environmental Control reported today.

The machine helps run a test developed by the Centers for Disease Control that can determine in just hours, instead of days, the specific strain of flu a patient has.

Scientists from across South Carolina plan to meet this week in Columbia to discuss how they would handle a massive outbreak of the flu.