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Apparently a 13 year old boy from Bristol was sent home from school with a temperature/aches and they rang for help and was told it was suspected SF and got Tamiflu for him but he still had temperature and stuff, and his mum insisted it wasn't SF and took him to hospital... turns out he had a kidney infection and spent 6 days in hospital and could have died.

This paranoia about SF is meaning stuff is getting misdiagnosed - it's not the fault of the web or the people in the call centres but so many things but sf can have those symptoms and they're presuming it is and giving antivirals... Maybe they should actually be following up these suspected cases with GPs or something to make sure it isn't like meningitis, or something. Someone will die soon - thankfully it wasn't that kid because his mum had enough sense to make sure he got looked at properly.