Diagnose swine flu can be on the Internet

Diagnose swine flu can be on the Internet.

Visitor’s Belgian site huis.vub.ac.be / greatest offer to answer "yes" or "no" to nine questions, including whether there is fever, cough, difficult breathing is whether there is a runny nose, sore throat and headache

The main objective of this project - in the case of large-scale spread of new influenza virus to avoid the large influx of cases to medical facilities.
As one of the sponsors of the project, Professor Dirk Depress, this test cannot fully substitute for medical advice, but merely helps a person to navigate, whether or not to consult a doctor.

The site is so popular among users that on the day of its opening were blocked due to a large number of visitors, reports today.

Only last week in Belgium acquired influenza A/H1N1 more than four thousand people, and the total number of cases reached 12 000 678.

However, the Belgian doctors believe that the level of morbidity and mortality from this flu virus does not exceed the usual indicators of seasonal flu and cannot talk about the flu epidemic in the country. "