The main symptoms included meningitis, endocarditis, septicemia, arthritis, bronchopneumonia and associated fever which, when serious, might cause shock and hemorrhagic agglutination. Swine Streptococcus infections are quite rare.

The Health Department also recommends for people with fever, cough, or sore throat to stay home until they are symptom-free for at least 24 hours in order to lower the risk of spreading the flu. Eating pork cannot spread the swine flu.

Beijingers have hardly paid attention to swine flu, and even feel numb about it," Mr. Liu, a Beijing resident, told The Epoch Times. "People in China don't know how serious this is, so the government is concealing things.

Those with fever were quarantined and sent to a hospital if their fever persisted.” Zhang, a student from Daqing Normal University, told a similar story.

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contracted the disease.It was the second local case in two months and took to 11 the number of infections reported to the city's Centre for Health Protection since May 2004.The latest case involved an 84-year-old man, who was admitted to hospital with fever