symptoms

Medicine Given that people that many more people than usual seem to be suffering from hay-fever this year (including me) and the pandemic alert level has been raised as swine flu hits Britain I really wouldn't want to be a GP today. Or work at a chemist. Or at NHS Direct.

Hay fever symptoms:

# Repeated sneezing attacks
# Runny or itchy nose
# Itchy or watery eyes
# Itchy throat, palate and ears
# Loss of concentration
# General feeling of being unwell (hence 'fever')

Swine flu symptoms:

# fever
# cough
# sore throat
# body aches
# headache
# chills
# fatigue

This can't go well.