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The media is telling me I am going to die of swine flue.

Silly....

lampy said:
It does seem that the media are making the most of giving dire predictions of impending doom.
Still looks like the Egyptian governments havin a panic attack, slaughtering all the pigs in the country! They havnt even had a case yet.
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w/o a doubt. And Russia has stopped importing our pork. You can't get the flu from eating the pig. Russia's ban is more political than sensible.

It may be to early to really know the effects of this flu. The regular flu kills 36,000 people a year. In 76 the Carter admin. went nuts on (what is believed to be a similiar strain) swine flu. They gave out the vacine like it was free. Te vacine killed more people than the flu.

I hear the worry is to fight it now, it goes underground for a year ot two, and comes back stronger.:puke02:
 
Cflaguy said:
The regular flu kills 36,000 people a year.
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But no one thinks that's a big enough deal to get a flu shot. It isn't YOU that's going to die! But when you're walking around contagious, you're going to infect a baby, or an elderly person, or someone with a weak immune system, and THEY will die. It's not about _you_. (Not you in particular, Craig, flu shot refusers in general).
 
Nanci said:
But no one thinks that's a big enough deal to get a flu shot. It isn't YOU that's going to die! But when you're walking around contagious, you're going to infect a baby, or an elderly person, or someone with a weak immune system, and THEY will die. It's not about _you_. (Not you in particular, Craig, flu shot refusers in general).
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You definitely have some logic to your post Nanci. We should do everything we can to curb the spread. At the samne time though, its a constant battle. As advanced as our technology and treatment may be, the technology of a virus is that much more ahead. A virus' sole reason for existance is to exist and proliferate. They will do anything to do that (build up resistance, mutate, etc).

I'm required to get a flu shot as a healthcare worker just because during flu outbreaks, they can afford for us to be out with the flu. Az is a huge retirement & snowbird capital, so we get it bad in the winter. The vaccines should go to those who need it most; the general healthy population is quite able tp fight most viruses off. The best thing that us healthy people can do is stay inside at home away from people when we contract the flu, which exactly what the CDC is telling everyone to do now.
 
Are you kidding me?! Wow... We have to get one done annually. If we even lapse by a week, we cannot work.

Maybe its because we are so close to Mexico? :shrugs:
 
Damn, the local news just said that a teen from my area has been diagnosed with the Swine Flu. He goes to the High School I used to go to, and it's not very far away. I make sure to wash my hands as soon as I get home, and when I'm sick I never cough out in the open, I cover my mouth, and then disinfect. I practice this regardless of the Swine Flu, and I wish more people were smart enough to be extra cautious if they feel sick. Let's hope this gets contained, because I would be so pissed if it spread here. So many people are careless with illnesses, and it's as simple as using cautionary steps if you feel sick to stop the spread.
 
Oh its gonna spread everywhere, make no mistake. This is such a rapid acting contagion that it is pretty much inevitable. I would not be suprised if this became a world-wide pandemic.

Cough into your sleeve. The droplets will stick to your clothing :)
 
Hmm, from what I understand about flu shots is that all they do is to help reduce the symptoms from when the virus infects you. They don't CURE you of the flu. A vaccine such as a flu shot uses weakened (or more commonly dead) particles of the target virus so your immune system sets up a preemptive resistance to the real infection.

Actually virus infections are incurable, your body just hopefully comes into equilibrium with them before you die from the symptoms of being infected. Then once your body has come into equilibrium, you ALWAYS carry the virus in your body. So in effect, YOU are now a carrier.

That is why you commonly catch a cold when you go to a new area of the country or world you haven't been to before. You are then exposed to one or more new cold viruses to which you have no developed resistance to. So then you catch a cold, and once the symptoms have passed and your immune system has gotten the virus in check, you now harbor that new virus within your own body. It NEVER goes away.
 
Info from CDC:

The flu shot gives you antibodies. If it is a good match that year, you probably won't get the flu. It reduces the chances of getting the flu, in healthy adults, by 70-90%. If it's not such a good match, you still get some protection by the antibodies from closely-related types of flu.

There are four flu antiviral drugs approved for use in the United States. The four antiviral drugs are:

Oseltamivir (brand name Tamiflu ®) is approved to both treat and prevent influenza A and B virus infection in people one year of age and older.

Zanamivir (brand name Relenza ®) is approved to treat influenza A and B virus infection in people 7 years and older and to prevent influenza A and B virus infection in people 5 years and older.

Amantadine (Symmetrel®, generic) is approved to treat and prevent only influenza A viruses in people older than 1 year.

Rimantadine (Flumadine®, generic) is approved to prevent only influenza A virus infection among people older than 1 year. It is approved to treat only influenza A virus infections in people 13 and older.

Flu shots won't protect you from any of the many other viruses that you may contact.
 
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