After hearing all the news about swine flu, Rossie Culpepper decided to play it safe and go to a walk- in-clinic as a precaution.
“I’ve heard it recommended that it might be helpful to get a pneumonia vaccination, to head off a possible complication,” says Culpepper.
While at the Minute Clinic inside CVS Pharmacy he also picked up information on swine flu and asked whatever questions he had.
And nurses at the Minute Clinics say they’ve been seeing more traffic all week. People who have questions and who are under the weather and worried about it.
Nurse Angela Bascom says she has been treating people with flu symptoms.
“You can still get the flu anytime, but usually it’s just seasonal and it’s pretty much over for the season. Now it makes it more alarming with swine flu…because we’re looking for confirmed cases,” says Bascom.
She is giving flu tests that can be processed quickly; if it tests positive for a certain type of flu, type a, it then goes to the Health Department for more tests.
After she came back from Mexico just two weeks ago, Josette Cobb did have some concerns.
“We didn’t hear about it when we were in Mexico; we heard about it when we got back to the U.S. So that’s why I was nervous I hadn’t heard anything, then all of a sudden you’re hearing it here, that it came from Mexico,” says Cobb.
But even though nurses at Minute Clinics in the area have done several flu tests, there have been no indications at all of anything to worry about.
Source: FirstCoastNews.com
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