CNN's Dr. Gupta gets the swine flu in Afghanistan

Post date: Oct 02, 2009 7:45:56 AM

OCT-2 2009

Gupta in battlefield hospital for H1N1

Gupta says he rarely gets sick, but this time was hit so

hard he had seek out a battlefield hospital for treatment.

Says Gupta: ....got Tylenol

In case you are curious, there wasn’t much the doctors could

really do for me. Some Tylenol and a sinus decongestant

(the same my wife would’ve given me). We also got IV fluids,

given our inability to keep anything down. Within a couple days,

I felt a lot better, and a few days after that – I was back to

normal. It was a lot like … the flu – with a different name.