H1N1 influenza is causing mild symptoms that go away without medication in most patients, but care-givers should be alert for warning signs of severe cases, the head of the World Health Organization said on Thursday.
"The overwhelming majority of patients experience mild symptoms and make a full recovery within a week, often in the absence of any form of medical treatment," WHO Director-General Margaret Chan told a conference in Cancun, Mexico.
"But there are some exceptions that must be the focus of particular concern," she told the meeting, according to the text of her speech distributed by the WHO in Geneva.
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