Swine flu linked to neurologic complications

Patients infected with swine flu can experience neurologic complications after respiratory tract infection from the virus, US health officials say. The Dallas County Department of Health and Human Services (DCHHS) followed the cases of four children aged between 7-17 years with neurologic complications associated with novel influenza A (H1N1) virus during May 2009 and published the findings in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. In all four patients H1N1 viral RNA was detected in nasopharyngeal specimens but not in cerebrospinal fluid....