A 16-year-old teenager arrives at the emergency room after experiencing vomiting for three days straight, tactile fevers, and a minor headache that subsided two days previously, Except for a high fever (100.3 °F) and a 133 beats per minute pulse rate, the patient's vital signs are normal. Blood testing and chest radiography (Figure 1) are prescribed. Apart from an elevated white blood cell count (19,000/L), laboratory findings are within normal limits.

  • #pediatrics
  • #pulmonology
  • #family health
  • #general medicine

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