Human Influenza Infection with Proved Viremia

Abstract

ALTHOUGH there is some indirect evidence in the medical literature that viremia may occur during human influenza infections^{1 , 2} the isolation of this virus from a patient's blood has not, to the best of my knowledge, been reported. The present communication describes the isolation of influenza virus Group A, Type 2, from both the blood and throat secretions of a patient with clinical manifestations of influenza.Case ReportThree days before admission a 40-year-old physician noted the onset of severe headache and generalized malaise. He did not believe that he was febrile. This continued until the day before admission, when he . . .