China View, May 23, 2009
UTMB's Joan Nichols is quoted in this article about the increasing number of primary and middle school students in New York City suffering from flu-like symptoms. Are all the school children suffering from flu-like symptoms already infected by H1N1 flu virus? Experts do not think so. "Right now as New York moves from winter into spring, we always see increases in respiratory infections," Nichols said. "Not all of these infections are H1N1 and as we survey the population, most have been shown to be flu A (seasonal) or flu B (seasonal) and not H1N1." China View is the Web site of the Xinhua News Agency, the official press agency of the government of the People's Republic of China.