Boo Radley Posted January 19, 2010 Report Share Posted January 19, 2010 Don't know if this was posted before. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1242479/CHRISTOPHER-BOOKER-After-awful-fiasco-swine-flu-believe-State-scare-machine-again.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shygye Posted January 19, 2010 Report Share Posted January 19, 2010 My sister got the H1N1 flu and it knocked her out for 2 weeks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cavanami Posted January 20, 2010 Report Share Posted January 20, 2010 Did she have the "shot"? Any idea of how she contracted it? Was it really the H1N1 or not sure? What part of the world does she live in? ...just curious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shygye Posted January 20, 2010 Report Share Posted January 20, 2010 She did not have the vaccine. In her work she has contact with many people and so got it from an infected person. The initial test was positive and she lives in the USA. A healthy college freshman at a nearby uni died from H1N1 after 2 months in intensive care. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cavanami Posted January 20, 2010 Report Share Posted January 20, 2010 Nasty stuff if it gets ahould of you! Good to hear that your sis is OK! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Hippie Posted January 20, 2010 Report Share Posted January 20, 2010 Like I said, I hear of cases, but no one I know has had it. And for an epidemic, you'd think I would know of tons of cases, or had it myself...so either the vaccines are working, or else it isn't that big a deal... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cavanami Posted January 21, 2010 Report Share Posted January 21, 2010 Many doc say it isn't that big of a deal. The human body, with the immuno system working, most any virus will not be a problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bangkoktraveler Posted January 21, 2010 Report Share Posted January 21, 2010 I got the flu right now and I had both flu shots. I know of otherswho have gotten it and some where out of work for 2 - 3 weeks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mentors Posted January 21, 2010 Author Report Share Posted January 21, 2010 H1N1 Attacked More London Youth Than Doctors Found, Study Says Jan. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Ten times as many children in London probably caught swine flu as doctors’ records suggest, researchers found in a study highlighting the role younger people play in spreading the pandemic virus. Tests for infection-fighting antibodies against the new H1N1 strain on almost 2,000 blood samples showed as many as one in three children caught the virus in the pandemic’s first wave in England, according to a study in the medical journal the Lancet today. The scientists compared blood samples with specimens collected before the pandemic to gauge infection rates, even in people who had no fever, cough or other flu symptoms. The study found children younger than 15 years were the group most likely to have been infected with swine flu, and that by the time vaccine became available in the U.K. in late October, the potential for mitigating the overall effect of the second wave by immunization was limited. “Children have an important role in transmission of influenza and would be a key target group for vaccination both for their protection and for the protection of others through herd immunity,†the authors said. The study analyzed antibody levels in blood-serum samples collated by a Health Protection Agency program in August- September and in 2008 across England in six age groups, from children younger than 5 years to adults older than 65. The rate of infection in London, which had one of the highest rates of H1N1 transmission in England, was 32 percent in children younger than 15 years and 20 percent for 20- to 24- year-olds -- 10 times higher than original Health Protection Agency estimates based on clinical surveillance, the researchers said. The finding supports analysis in July by the World Health Organization in Geneva of data from Canada, Chile, Japan, U.K. and U.S. that showed the median age of those infected with the H1N1 virus is 12 to 17 years. Before the pandemic, protective levels of H1N1 antibodies ranged from 1.8 percent among infants younger than 5 years to 31 percent in people older than 80 years, according to the Lancet study. “Individuals born before 1957 might have been exposed to influenza H1 strains circulating in the first half of the 20th century, which are more closely related to current swine-origin 2009 pandemic H1N1 viruses,†the authors said. http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-01-21/h1n1-attacked-more-london-youth-than-doctors-found-study-says.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Hippie Posted January 21, 2010 Report Share Posted January 21, 2010 I can get a free shot at work...the question is, do I want it? supposedly, the "epidemic" will peak...er now? last week? SO not sure it matters...also that whole conspiracy thing about getting me sick to cull the herd... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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