It was today reported in the 'ouse of Commons, by none less than the Health Secretary, that there have been twenty-five (25) possible cases of swine flu in the UK since the start of the scare.
One such occurred in my hospital this weekend. Basically, it was total bollocks - the woman in question came in with a straightforward pneumonia, but because she was eight months pregnant the medical team looking after her shipped her on to the obstetricians, on the basis that she was doing reasonably well and at that stage in a pregnancy the priority if she went off would obviously be getting her baby delivered.
As far as I can make out, the obstetricians spent the entire weekend trying to convince the poor lady that she would die and that if she didn't she'd need to be put on a ventilator for them to deliver the baby. In amongst all this they realised that she'd been to Mexico and so called the local Health Protection Agency about her querying swine flu. The only problem, of course, was that she got back more than two months ago - not really consistent with the incubation period - and had a far, far more likely diagnosis already in place.
In the end the weekend team took her away from the panicky obstetricians and put her back on a medical ward, where she is doing just fine, and it looks like despite the hullabaloo that the baby will not be born with a pig's head this time. I wonder how many more of the 25 cases were utter bollocks...?
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