Priorities

My 14 year old son has been extremely unwell recently. His Doctor feared that he had Influenza A, the strain of 'human flu' that has recently taken the lives of several children and adults. He had blood taken to test for antibodies to Influenza A, however, the results did not come back as expected.....they did not come back at all! After many phone calls, I got on to the Unit Manager at Gribbles Pathology in Adelaide, where these tests are carried out, and was told that all of the agent used in viral serology had been used to test horses for EI. Gribbles were waiting on an overseas shipment to arrive so that they could run my sons tests.

Unbelievable! Maybe if James had been running in the Melbourne Cup he would have been given higher priority! His results finally came back after 13 days (this should be a 4 day turn around) and he tested positive to this potentially deadly human flu.

Helen