Have you had H1N1
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A friend of a friend (who happens to me age) and in otherwise pretty good health caught it and passed away in about 5 days. Left behind a young family. Very Tragic. My wife and I hope to get a shot today, but we don't think we are in the priority group.
Scary stuff
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I doubt I had it but I got the nasal mist for it about a week and a half back. Since then I haven't really felt all that great although that finally seems to be abating. Not sure if it was a mild case of the flu or something else. Fortunately my employer provides me with seasonal flu vaccines every year and this year also did the flu mist stuff. Patient contact and all that.
Scary stuff and I hope it doesn't claim more lives.
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I've had it twice now (oh yes you can!). The cough (which I still have) has now lasted 6 weeks (9 weeks over the summer). The vaccine exists, because your body doesn't build a resistance to the virus (hence it being possible to get more than once). If it mutates, then the vaccine (I believe?) becomes useless. The cough is the nastiest bit, but hey, I'm still alive!
To be honest, it's all a load of hot air- like most scares today.
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BUt it's that hot air (especially from someone else's cough) that can kill you. I got my shot yesterday. I feel of course 100% safe. . .
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@tfdesign said:
The cough (which I still have) has now lasted 6 weeks (9 weeks over the summer).
You too, eh? It took forever for that cough to go away; just like you said, about 6 weeks.
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@unknownuser said:
Scary stuff
No. It is not (scary stuff). Sorry, but I feel you are being over-hysterical. Death has only occurred in people who have underlying health problems. More people die from common influenza than the H1N1 virus!
and another;
It is the media who are blowing this out of proportion. Look at this article by The Guardian newspaper, from the UK. Traditionally 'The Guardian' has mostly been an liberal left-wing newspaper, but in recent years has been loosing sales to the internet. Read the article. There is no (or very little) suggestion anywhere that any of these people have underlying health problems. The main emphasis is on panic and hysteria. The article is written so you think that common healthy people in Argentina, are dropping like flies- which they are not.
By getting on the sensationalist bandwagon, newspapers like The Guardian find they are selling more newspapers, because people like you, fall for this sensationalist nonsense. Sorry to be so blunt, but in England we have had almost all of our basic rights taken away from us, due largely to media-fuelled sensationalism, which the government then act on, as they too lack good, solid, leadership. I, and many other British people, are more sick of this. More so, than the so far non-existent "flu pandemic" that our government said we were going to suffer from. Media sensationalism is a real pandemic!
My doctor has told me that I have had the swine flu for a second time. My two children have also had it, and so has my wife. I am 42 years old, and an asthmatic, yet here I am, I haven't had a jab (yet), and I am still alive.
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@escapeartist said:
@tfdesign said:
The cough (which I still have) has now lasted 6 weeks (9 weeks over the summer).
You too, eh? It took forever for that cough to go away; just like you said, about 6 weeks.
See. Another survivor!
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Some perspective...
Swine Flu Mortality
This info graphic shows the immense threat
of the Swine Flu compared to other manners
of death...There is a little chaos here with the vaccination. Long Queues... some waited almost five hours, in a sub-zero weather.
Personally, been in a flu almost two weeks (not Swine)... no interest to go out and freeze in those long queue lines. -
That chart certainly throws some perspective on things, doesn't it?
Can't stand the media; if there isn't anything news-worthy, they'll make something up!
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sorry. H1N1? as the web cartoonist Howard Tayler says, sounds like a droid from Star Wars..
I suggest we use his name for it... Hamthrax!
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@tfdesign said:
Death has only occurred in people who have underlying health problems. More people die from common influenza than the H1N1 virus!
Swine flu can be fatal to people with no pre-existing illnesses, specially if they do not get proper treatment soon enough. There are reported cases of that in Nordic countries (where statistics and health information are generally well tracked). And once again... media makes this to look much worse than it actually is. So far a common influenza is more fatal, but the Swine flu affects to a bit different group of people; "The epidemic has especially hit people born in the 70s or later. They have better capacity to survive than do the elderly, so there have been fewer difficult cases than during seasonal flu epidemics". So if I where born in 70s or later and if I would get bad Swine flu symptoms, I would not wait long to get a treatment.
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@notareal said:
Some perspective...
Swine Flu Mortality
This info graphic shows the immense threat
of the Swine Flu compared to other manners
of death...There is a little chaos here with the vaccination. Long Queues... some waited almost five hours, in a sub-zero weather.
Personally, been in a flu almost two weeks (not Swine)... no interest to go out and freeze in those long queue lines.In the U.S. for 2006, there were 30,896 deaths from firearms
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@unknownuser said:
WHO Flu, GlaxoSmithKline Flu, Swine Flu, A flu is just a flu by any name.
Except occasionally you get a flu that kills of a few million people, which is where the (so far unjustified) panic seems to spread from.
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The H1N1 flu is a descendant of the 1918-19 influenza, of which an estimated 500 million people worldwide suffered and 30-50 million died. H1N1 may appear bantam weight, but it's still nothing to take lightly.
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