UPDATE: Swine flu under control in Tzaneen
Letaba Herald last week reported that there was residents in town who were diagnosed with swine flu.
A local pharmacist confirmed last week that the influenza H1N1 virus commonly known as swine flu has hit Tzaneen.
This comes after five people came with prescriptions from their doctors having been diagnosed with the virus.
“There is definitely swine flu in town,” she said last week.
She stated that the outbreak of the virus is because most people do not get flu vaccinations in the beginning of the winter month. If you have the following symptoms which are similar to those of other flu strains, you must immediately consult your doctor.
Swine flu symptoms develop within one or three days after you are exposed to the virus and it continues for about seven days. The best medicine used for the virus is Tamiflu. Tamiflu can only be prescribed by a doctor.
“Do not go to your neighbour, do not go to your pharmacist, do not go to doctor Google, get to your doctor,” she concluded.
Letaba Herald can confirm that there there was a decline in prescriptions at the specific pharmacy.
Residents should not panic, as the situation is under control.
‘The doctors in town have it under control and there is a lot of medicine available,’ she told the Letaba Herald.
