H1N1 and different flus

At the end of last week I began to get a soar throat. I didn't think much bout it, I just thought being in a new environment was affecting me. I kept going on with my normal activities until it started to get worse. I started to receive more symptoms like coughing, hot flashes, runny nose, red eyes, body weak, not able to eat, and extremely tired. I decided to call my mother and ask her what I should do. She told me to get plenty of rest and drink a lot of fluids. She also told me that there was a flu breakout and that I should look it up and read about it.

When I searched "flu", a whole story on the Los Angeles Times popped up. It read "H1N1 and other flus off to an early start around the U.S.". Twenty Seven states are reporting a wide spread of H1N1 influenza virus. From august 30th to september 29th, 16,174 have been hospitalized and 1,379 have died. The majority of them were swine flu related. A lot of pregnant women have been hospitalized in intensive care and out of the 100 women, 28 had died. The CDC said last week that there was a shortage of Tamiflu for infants and young children. The Human Services released 300,000 courses of Tamiflu to be available to states based on population. It was sent to Texas and Colorado first.

As I read about the symptoms I became very scared. The list read "1. unusual tiredness 2. headache 3. runny nose 4. sore throat 5. shortness of breath or cough 6. loss of appetite 7. aching muscles 8. diarrhea or vomiting". This was almost everything I was going through and began to panic. I just did what my mother had told me and took some cold medicine. After resting in bed all weekend I began to feel better, but am still afraid because I don't want to relapse and get sick once again.