Articles tagged:What's Going Around

Posted: Thu Nov 12 10:11 a.m. by Jen Eyer Director of Audience Engagement
What's Going Around: Swine flu cases leveling off

Suspected cases of H1N1 influenza have leveled off over the past week, said Jan Briggson, practice manager for Child Health Associates in Ann Arbor. "We still are seeing the flu, but it has definitely plateaued, and the cases are also milder," Briggson said today during our weekly phone call. "A ...

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Posted: Wed Oct 28 1 p.m. by Jen Eyer Director of Audience Engagement
What's Going Around: It's all swine flu, all the time

In our weekly phone call, Jan Briggson, practice manager for Child Health Associates in Ann Arbor, said last week — for the first time ever — she got e-mails from all the local hospitals saying their pediatric units were at capacity. They're full of kids sick with swine flu, though ...

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Posted: Wed Oct 21 10:10 a.m. by Jen Eyer Director of Audience Engagement
What's Going Around for 10/21: An uptick in 'flu-like illnesses'

What's going around this week is the flu, and lots of it, says Jan Briggson, practice manager for Child Health Associates in Ann Arbor. About 70 percent of calls in the past week were from parents whose kids have flu-like symptoms: sore throat, fever, aches, and upper respiratory problems. And ...

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Posted: Wed Oct 14 12:38 p.m. by Jen Eyer Director of Audience Engagement

"What's Going Around" is a weekly series looking at what illnesses are circulating among kids in the community. Activity is up over last week, with a lot of upper respiratory infections, sore throats and elevated fevers, says Jan Briggson, practice manager for Child Health Associates in Ann Arbor. Influenza-like illnesses ...

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Posted: Wed Oct 7 10:39 a.m. by Jen Eyer Director of Audience Engagement
What's Going Around: Week of Oct. 7

This is the first in a weekly series looking at what illnesses are circulating among kids in the community. I checked in with Jan Briggson, practice manager for Child Health Associates, this morning to see what types of illnesses her practice is seeing this week. She said it's been relatively ...

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