The Canadian Medical Association Journal reported that public health officials in British Columbia are advising doctors to assume that all flu symptoms are the results of the H1N1 virus.
The organization quotes Tofino family doctor Dr. John Armstong, who said he has treated “dozens” of people infected with the virus. The provincial public health lab in Vancouver instructed him to stop sending swabs.
“We’ve reduced our swabbing...” Armstrong said in the report. BC public health officials “more or less told us to stop taking swabs because the lab is getting swamped in Vancouver.”
Public officials have supposedly confirmed that all the swabs being submitted are positive for H1N1. Several media outlets have requested full disclosure of laboratory analysis and methods of confirmation for those individuals infected with the H1N1 virus. No official statement has been released by public officials regarding the requests.
