Flu Like Symptoms

Clippers guard Nick Young will miss Sunday night's game against the New Orleans Hornets because of flu-like symptoms. Young is averaging 10.2 points and 1.8 rebounds for the Clippers, who entered Sunday's game in fourth place in the Western Conference with a record of 39-24. The Clippers, who still have an outside chance to capture third place in the Western Conference, play at Atlanta on Tuesday and at New York on Wednesday to conclude the regular season. The Lakers (41-24)

Mike Bresnahan covers the Lakers for The Times and ties up loose ends before all their playoff games. The Lakers lead the Nuggets, 3-2. Rarely am I stunned by the Lakers. I'm the lucky guy whose first year on the beat was when Coach Rudy Tomjanovich resigned halfway through the season and the Lakers went 2-19 down the stretch, failing to make the playoffs for only the fifth time in 58 years. Oh, yeah. They also finished behind the Clippers in the standings. But I was pretty surprised to realize Pau Gasol had only seven points with four minutes left in Game 5 against Denver.

DENVER -- Kobe Bryant was not at the Lakers' shoot-around Thursday morning because of intestinal flu-like symptoms, the Lakers said. The Lakers play the Nuggets at 7:30 p.m. PDT tonight  in Game 6 of their first-round playoff series. "If I were a betting guy, which I'm not, I would probably bet that he would play," Lakers Coach Mike Brown said. Bryant had 43 points Tuesday but the Lakers lost to Denver in Game 5, 102-99. The Lakers lead the series, 3-2. Bryant is averaging 31.2 points in the series but shooting 42.9%, slightly below his career playoff shooting percentage of 44.8%.

Kobe Bryant will play tonight in Game 6 against Denver after missing the morning shoot-around because of intestinal flu-like symptoms. "He's holding down fluids and stuff like that," Lakers Coach Mike Brown said 90 minutes before tip-off. "He'll play. " The Lakers lead the first-round series against the Nuggets, 3-2. Bryant averaged 31.2 points in the first five games of the playoffs, including a 43-point outburst in Game 5. "They said there's no minute restriction," Brown said of Bryant.

How can you tell if you or someone you know is having a heart attack? Sometimes the symptoms can be surprisingly subtle. "They can be very different from person to person, between women and men and even within an individual who has more than one heart attack," says Dr. David Rizik, director of Interventional Cardiology for Scottsdale Healthcare Hospitals, in Scottsdale, Ariz. Men and women may experience atypical heart attack symptoms. In contrast to the "classic" chest-splitting, gasping-for-breath symptoms, many heart attacks begin with symptoms that are so mild they are often mistaken for indigestion or muscle ache.

Mike Bresnahan covers the Lakers for The Times and ties up loose ends before all their playoff games. The Lakers lead the Nuggets, 3-2. Rarely am I stunned by the Lakers. I'm the lucky guy whose first year on the beat was when Coach Rudy Tomjanovich resigned halfway through the season and the Lakers went 2-19 down the stretch, failing to make the playoffs for only the fifth time in 58 years. Oh, yeah. They also finished behind the Clippers in the standings. But I was pretty surprised to realize Pau Gasol had only seven points with four minutes left in Game 5 against Denver.

at Dallas, 5:30, FS West Site -- American Airlines Center. Radio -- 1150. Records -- Stars 5-7-3; Kings 6-6-2. Record vs. Stars -- 1-1. Update -- Kings' center Oscar Moller, who missed Tuesday's game against Dallas because of flu-like symptoms, is expected to play. Kings goaltender Erik Ersberg will make his fifth consecutive start. -- Chris Foster

Kobe Bryant will play tonight in Game 6 against Denver after missing the morning shoot-around because of intestinal flu-like symptoms. "He's holding down fluids and stuff like that," Lakers Coach Mike Brown said 90 minutes before tip-off. "He'll play. " The Lakers lead the first-round series against the Nuggets, 3-2. Bryant averaged 31.2 points in the first five games of the playoffs, including a 43-point outburst in Game 5. "They said there's no minute restriction," Brown said of Bryant.

Health officials issued a warning after a 32-year-old Portola woman became California's 13th confirmed hantavirus victim. The woman, whose name was withheld, is at home recuperating after a brief stay in a hospital following flu-like symptoms, said Bill Crigler, Plumas County environmental health director. "She exhibited flu-like symptoms initially and was admitted to the hospital with fever, achiness and chest tightness," he said.

In findings that may represent a breakthrough in the treatment of hepatitis C infection, researchers have reported that weekly injections of an experimental medication that denies the virus a foothold in the liver substantially drove down subjects' viral loads after five weeks of treatment. Fourteen weeks after the injections ended, researchers found that five of 18 infected subjects getting the medication's higher doses showed no detectable trace of infection. The new study describes a treatment approach that could outsmart the hepatitis C virus's penchant for developing resistance to existing drugs and "provide curative therapy to a large proportion" of the 170 million people in the world who are infected with the virus, wrote Harvard University physician Dr. Judy Lieberman and Dr. Peter Sarnow of Stanford University.

DENVER -- Kobe Bryant was not at the Lakers' shoot-around Thursday morning because of intestinal flu-like symptoms, the Lakers said. The Lakers play the Nuggets at 7:30 p.m. PDT tonight  in Game 6 of their first-round playoff series. "If I were a betting guy, which I'm not, I would probably bet that he would play," Lakers Coach Mike Brown said. Bryant had 43 points Tuesday but the Lakers lost to Denver in Game 5, 102-99. The Lakers lead the series, 3-2. Bryant is averaging 31.2 points in the series but shooting 42.9%, slightly below his career playoff shooting percentage of 44.8%.

Clippers guard Nick Young will miss Sunday night's game against the New Orleans Hornets because of flu-like symptoms. Young is averaging 10.2 points and 1.8 rebounds for the Clippers, who entered Sunday's game in fourth place in the Western Conference with a record of 39-24. The Clippers, who still have an outside chance to capture third place in the Western Conference, play at Atlanta on Tuesday and at New York on Wednesday to conclude the regular season. The Lakers (41-24)

Miguel Alejandro Sanchez, a longtime Bell resident who protested against the inflated salaries of local officials and was campaigning for a seat on the City Council, has died, just days before the election. He was 34. Sanchez was pronounced dead at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center around 4:39 p.m. on Friday, just 12 hours after he had been admitted, said hospital spokeswoman Rosa Saca. The cause of death could not be released without authorization from his family, Saca said.

Mark Wiebe, appearing weary and ill, dropped himself into a chair in an interview room at the Newport Beach Country Club on Friday. He then leaned his left temple onto his left fist. His eyes drooped. This is how a sick man does an interview, apparently. And how a leader in the Toshiba Classic looked after the first round. Wiebe, battling flu-like symptoms, picked up six birdies and played his first bogey-free round of the year. He shot a six-under-par 65 to share the lead with Bob Tway and Chien Soon Lu. Fred Couples leads a group of four who are one shot back.

Chances are, Alfred Aboya will feel better today. The headache should be gone. The cramping too. When UCLA takes the court against Washington State at Pauley Pavilion, the 6-foot-9 center might even show some of his old spark. But that doesn't mean his coaches and teammates will forget what he endured for them this week. On Friday, Coach Ben Howland sounded amazed. "It's absolutely unbelievable how tough he is," Howland said.

at Dallas, 5:30, FS West Site -- American Airlines Center. Radio -- 1150. Records -- Stars 5-7-3; Kings 6-6-2. Record vs. Stars -- 1-1. Update -- Kings' center Oscar Moller, who missed Tuesday's game against Dallas because of flu-like symptoms, is expected to play. Kings goaltender Erik Ersberg will make his fifth consecutive start. -- Chris Foster

Laboratory tests have determined that something other than hantavirus killed a Hemet woman who died after cleaning a mountain cabin, authorities said Thursday. Blood tests on the body of Donna Lynch, 44, proved negative for the virus, authorities said. An autopsy was planned for Thursday night, said Mark Lohman, spokesman for the Riverside County coroner. Because the cause of Lynch's death was unclear, pathologists planned to wear airtight suits and take extra security precautions, he said.

The area that produces almost one-third of Louisiana's oysters was closed last week and all the oysters harvested from there after Dec. 22 were recalled when more than 150 people in 11 states became ill from eating shellfish contaminated with an as-yet-unidentified virus. No illnesses were reported in Southern California.

Michael Jackson was treated at a local hospital Tuesday for flu-like symptoms, delaying jury selection in his child-molestation trial for one week. Jackson, 46, took a detour to the emergency room at Marian Medical Center, about 1 1/2 miles from the courthouse, on his way to the morning session. At a brief news conference, Dr. Chuck Merrill, an emergency room physician at the hospital, said the singer had been vomiting and was being treated with intravenous fluids.

Kobe Bryant, already sidelined from Laker games because of a cut on his index finger, was a no-show for a crucial court hearing Monday because of what were described as flu-like symptoms. The pretrial hearing, which was closed to the public, centered on whether Bryant's attorneys can gain access to certain medical and psychological records of the woman accusing Bryant of rape. Eight witnesses testified, and court spokesperson Karen Salaz said the hearing had been completed.