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Survey: 1 in 5 US kids had flu this month

(Agencies)
Updated: 2009-10-23 03:24

ATLANTA: The latest government survey has found that 1 in 5 US children had a flu-like illness earlier this month, and most of those cases likely were H1N1 flu.

Marisol Rangeo receives the swine flu nasal spray vaccine in Indianapolis, Thursday, Oct. 22, 2009. [Agencies]

A federal health official announced the findings Wednesday, at a medical meeting in Atlanta. The information comes from a household survey of more than 10,000 adults done in the first 11 days of October.

Overall, the survey found that 7 percent of the surveyed adults said they'd had a flu-like illness in the past week.