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If you are sick, you should stay home and avoid contact with other people as much as possible to keep from spreading your illness to others. 
If you become ill and experience any of the following warning signs, seek emergency medical care. 
In children emergency warning signs that need urgent medical attention include: 

Fast breathing or trouble breathing 
Bluish skin color 
Not drinking enough fluids 
Not waking up or not interacting 
Being so irritable that the child does not want to be held 
Flu-like symptoms improve but then return with fever and worse cough 
Fever with a rash 
In adults, emergency warning signs that need urgent medical attention include: 

Difficulty breathing or shortness of breath 
Pain or pressure in the chest or abdomen 
Sudden dizziness 
Confusion 
Severe or persistent vomiting 

How serious is swine flu infection?
Like seasonal flu, swine flu in humans can vary in severity from mild to severe. Between 2005 until January 2009, 12 human cases of swine flu were detected in the U.S. with no deaths occurring. However, swine flu infection can be serious. In September 1988, a previously healthy 32-year-old pregnant woman in Wisconsin was hospitalized for pneumonia after being infected with swine flu and died 8 days later. A swine flu outbreak in Fort Dix, New Jersey occurred in 1976 that caused more than 200 cases with serious illness in several people and one death.

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	. CDC ........... If you are sick, you should stay home and avoid contact with other people as much as possible to keep from spreading your illness to others. If you become ill and experience any of the following warning signs, seek emergency medical care. In children emergency warning signs that need urgent medical attention include: Fast breathing or trouble breathing Bluish skin color Not drinking enough fluids Not waking up or not interacting Being so irritable that the child does not want to be held Flu-like symptoms improve but then return with fever and worse cough Fever with a rash In adults, emergency warning signs that need urgent medical attention include: Difficulty breathing or shortness of breath Pain or pressure in the chest or abdomen Sudden dizziness Confusion Severe or persistent vomiting How serious is swine flu infection? Like seasonal flu, swine flu in humans can vary in severity from mild to severe. Between 2005 until January 2009, 12 human cases of swine flu were detected in the U.S. with no deaths occurring. However, swine flu infection can be serious. In September 1988, a previously healthy 32-year-old pregnant woman in Wisconsin was hospitalized for pneumonia after being infected with swine flu and died 8 days later. A swine flu outbreak in Fort Dix, New Jersey occurred in 1976 that caused more than 200 cases with serious illness in several people and one death.