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Updated: 3:23 PM Dec 1, 2009
What's Going Around
What's going around this first week of December? We checked in to find out.
Posted: 3:23 PM Dec 1, 2009
Reporter: Penny Moss
Email Address: penny.moss@wsaz.com
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HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) -- In Huntington, Susan Fabry at University Pediatrics says they're seeing some croup and strep throat, but a significant decrease in the flu.

Doctors at Tri-State Pediatrics at Our Lady of Bellefonte Hospital in Ashland, Ky., are also seeing strep throat. They're also diagnosing mycoplasma, which is a respiratory illness with symptoms including fever, cough, bronchitis, sore throat, headache and fatigue. It's spread through coughing and sneezing. Mononucleosis is also going around. It is a virus with symptoms including fever, sore throat, and extreme fatigue. It can take three to four weeks to fully recover from mono.

Doctors at Roane General Hospital Medical Clinic in Spencer are seeing a lot of upper respiratory infections. Like the rest of the region, flu symptoms are on the decrease, as are gastrointestinal symptoms.

In Charleston, doctors at ABC Pediatrics are seeing some strep throat, but for the most part an empty waiting room because we're told there's just not much illness going around right now.

In Jackson, Ohio, doctors at Jackson Area Family Practice and Pediatrics have been seeing a lot of strep throat, as well as sinusitis and bronchitis.


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