Monday, August 17, 2009

Teenage girl dies of tonsillitis after being misdiagnosed as having swine flu...

The distraught father of a teenage girl who died after her tonsillitis was deemed to be swine flu is calling for over-the-phone diagnosis to be scrapped.

Karl Hartey accused the Government of having 'blood on its hands' after his 16-year-old daughter Charlotte died from complications arising from tonsillitis.

The case will further increase concerns that illnesses, some of them serious, are increasingly being misdiagnosed as swine flu.

Following revelations that 16-year-olds are being employed at a swine flu call centre, there are also fears that many of those doling out advice and the anti-viral drug Tamilfu are not qualified to do so. More...

Don't miss:

  1. Another death in England as meningitis is again wrongfully diagnosed as swine flu. 
  2. Two-year-old girl dies ofsuspected meningitis after being wrongfully diagnosed TWICE as having swine flu...
  3. Swine flu phobia almost kills this boy...
  4. Swine flu and the panic pandemic...
  5. British TV host slams Health Secretary over Tamiflu that almost killed his daughter...

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