Springboks doctor Craig Roberts said that the players had been taking medication for flu symptoms.
Anyone with mild flu symptoms can be treated quickly and discharged, isolated from more serious cases.
Flu symptoms include a sudden fever, a cough with a sore throat, and aching muscles and joints.
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And in Israel, doctors are running tests on a man who recently returned from Mexico with light flu symptoms.
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Frieden said in the hearing about twice as many elderly people have been hospitalized with flu symptoms than in recent years.
Given within the first couple of days of infection, it can ease flu symptoms and shorten the duration of the illness.
For instance, Tim awoke one morning in Mexico with raging flu symptoms.
Flu symptoms can include fever, cough, runny nose, body ache and fatigue.
U.S. officials also are asking scientists whether additional measures to screen for flu symptoms were needed at U.S. ports of entry, she said.
And in healthcare, hospitals are adjusting emergency room staffing levels based on the frequency and proximity of key words in search engines (e.g. flu symptoms).
Public health officials are simply assuming that anyone with flu symptoms has swine flu, because it's the only form of the virus in circulation, he said.
She said anyone who showed flu symptoms and was concerned should contact their GP, and that people should keep good hygiene to stop any spread of the virus.
Recipients with flu symptoms were also separated from those without.
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Schuchat noted swine flu symptoms are relatively general and nonspecific.
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Dr. Thomas Frieden, the CDC's director, said this month in a congressional hearing that about twice as many elderly people have been hospitalized with flu symptoms than in recent years.
For example, if a physician saw three young children with flu symptoms in his office, he might sell any yellow shares he had for the following week and buy red ones.
Recent cold weather had brought about more cases involving breathing difficulties and chest pains and WMAS is expecting cold and flu symptoms to have an effect on calls over the coming months.
Vaccinated people in that age group had only a 9 percent lower chance of going to the doctor with flu symptoms from the main virus than people who didn't get the shot.
In 2003, Kelly Preston told Montel Williams that when Jett was 2, he became ill with flu symptoms, including fever, rashes and swollen lymph nodes, before a doctor diagnosed him with Kawasaki disease.
Frieden repeated those with flu symptoms -- particularly those who are older or young children -- should see their doctor and, if possible, take the antiviral medications Tamiflu or Relenza to lessen symptoms.
But even if such recommendations were universally followed, they would not halt the spread of the disease, she said, noting that an infected person can spread the virus prior to getting flu symptoms.
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Rather than putting extra strain on services vital for real emergencies at this busy time of year people with cold and flu symptoms should use available medication and if worried visit a pharmacist for expert advice.
But nurses working for NHS Direct Wales also deal with non life-threatening Category C calls to the ambulance service - such as minor injuries or colds and flu symptoms - which ambulances have a target to reach within 30 minutes.
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"Symptoms include flu-like symptoms like tiredness, general aches and pains, headaches and fever, as well as loss of appetite, nausea or vomiting, diarrhoea, abdominal pains, jaundice, very dark urine and itchy skin, " he said.
You should consult your physician if you feel you may have come down with flu like symptoms.
He developed the classical flu like symptoms withing a week of his return and was in hospital for four days.
Please consult your physician regarding any questions regarding whether you should be taking antiviral medications if you develop flu like symptoms.
Try to avoid close contact if you are ill with the flu or if others around you have flu like symptoms.
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