Flu brings deluge of worry, wait
With a daily caseload that has surged as much as 80 percent, the emergency room at Children's National Medical Center allowed a glimpse on two recent days inside the hospital, at a time when lab-coated doctors and scrubs-clad nurses tend the flu-stricken, round-the-clock.
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What Is Swine Flu?
Swine flu is an influenza virus, like the strains that cause such misery to people during the winter months. Flu viruses also infect many other species of mammals, as well as birds, and this strain causes a respiratory disease in pigs.
