What are the symptoms of the new H1N1 swine flu virus? Fever, cough, sore throat, runny orstuffy nose, body aches, headache,chills and fatigue. A significantnumber of people also reportdiarrhea and vomiting. What is the difference betweenordinary seasonal flu and a flupandemic?The symptoms are the same, butthey can be much more severe witha pandemic, which affects younger,healthy people who don’t normallysuffer as much from seasonal flu. How do I know if I have the H1N1virus or seasonal flu?Without laboratory testing, it’sdifficult to know exactly what strainof flu a person has. Often, severalstrains of flu are circulating at thesame time, and the symptoms areusually the same. And becausehealth officials are no longer doinglarge-scale diagnostic tests todetermine which types of flu peoplehave, health-care providers arepreparing this fall to assess and treatpatients with all types of flu-likeillness. Only flu patients who arehospitalized will continue to betested for H1N1.