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Article: Dr Scurr's View.(News)
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- July 14, 2009
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Byline: Dr Martin Scurr
DON'T panic. That's the first thing I want to say to parents following the shocking death of six-year-old Chloe Buckley from swine flu.
The fact is the disease as we've seen it so far tends to be extremely mild, with only people who have a compromised immune system suffering anything more than uncomfortable symptoms.
It may be that Chloe - and Dr Michael Day, the GP who has also died apparently as a result of swine flu - had some underlying, but unknown, problem that is yet to be revealed.
So we must be careful not to see their tragic deaths as a sign that the disease has entered a more terrifying phase and ...