With H1N1 flu spreading quickly, and a number of deaths

MineralMan

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Sat Oct-17-09 09:04 AM
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With H1N1 flu spreading quickly, and a number of deaths

reported, I notice that the anti-vaccination posts have slowed down. That's the only positive thing I can find in this news. Get your shots, when they're available, folks. I don't want to see any missing names here on DU.

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lamp_shade

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Sat Oct-17-09 09:04 AM
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1. Oh I plan to as soon as available.

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mucifer

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Sat Oct-17-09 09:07 AM
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2. If I wasn't a nurse with very sick pediatric patients I probably wouldn't get the

injections. But, I would feel terrible if I got the flu and passed it on and knew there was something I could have done about it. So, I got my flu shot and as soon as our agency gets the h1n1 vaccine, I'll get it too.

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stray cat

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Sat Oct-17-09 09:34 AM
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4. Thank you! I always thought we should make an emphasis of herd immunity

protecting those who can't protect themselves (elderly, immune supprested, and very young children often are not well protected by a vaccine or in some cases can not be vaccinated.

Also as a medical professional you don't want to get patients sick. For myself I don't want to get my students sick - particularly since H1N1 is more severe in that age group than seasonal flu. I would hate to be responsible for making them very ill or even giving them a flu virus that ends up being lethal for them.

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Warpy

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Sat Oct-17-09 09:28 AM
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3. I'm an old crock so I'm waiting

until late in the season when supplies are more plentiful. It's odd that we old folks aren't in the first triage group for this one but it's about time we got a break on something.

Deaths from flu are also starting to mount up and they're mostly kids or healthy younger adults. I think that's got the antivax crowd a little more subdued. Unfortunately, their howling has had an effect and the people most in need of the shot are the people most resistant to getting it.

It's too bad Mother Nature never seems to come up with an illness that targets negative human characteristics like greed, ignorance, paranoia, and bigotry.

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northernlights

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Sat Oct-17-09 09:36 AM
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5. it's not odd that older people aren't the top priority

epidemiological studies showed which groups were most at risk and the vaccination priority was based on those studies. Older people have been exposed to similar strains of swine flu (eg in the 70s) and are showing residual resistance. We're less likely to get sick and die from it than young people who've never been exposed. And for some reason pregnant woman are at or near the highest risk.

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kestrel91316

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Sat Oct-17-09 10:49 AM
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6. There wasn't any significan swine flu exposure in the 70's, which is part of

the reason why everyone with an agenda was screeching so loud about how it was a waste of time and money and lives to have vaccinated against it. The cases simply never materialized (though that could have been because of high herd immunity from mass vaccinations, lol).

There WAS a swine flu back in the early or mid-50's that a lot of folks older than me (I am 52) have protection against. I wish, for once, that I were older.

I eagerly await the H1N1 shot (my age group can't get the intranasal version - no FDA approval for us).

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northernlights

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Sat Oct-17-09 06:07 PM
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7. I'm in your group

I'm taking Sambucol now as a preventive measure. We've been having sporadic cases here in Maine, but no major outbreaks that I'm aware of.

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Confusious

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Sat Oct-17-09 06:12 PM
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8. If you're older then 50-55 you PROBABLY already have immunity

I read that in one of the articles about it. Still get your shot though.

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Warpy

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Sat Oct-17-09 07:57 PM
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9. I'm waiting until January

all high risk people who aren't needle weenies and paranoid antivax crazy people will have gotten it by then.

Between getting flu in 1957 and 1968 and getting the regular flu shot, I should have partial protection.

Part of the problem is that this is the first type A influenza pandemic in 40 years. That's why it's killing so many younger people, they have no immunity to it at all.

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tnlefty

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Sat Oct-17-09 08:21 PM
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10. I'm not planning to be vaccinated, and I'm not opposed to

vaccines.

H1N1 was going through the high school that my younger 2 attend beginning prior to Labor Day weekend. The older had a cough and a sore throat, but the younger one (14) had a nasty bout with it: fever at times over 104, coughing, sore throat, aching, etc. This was during Labor Day weekend, and I had a sore throat, headaches and a cough, but I think I've already been exposed so someone else can have any shot that I might take.

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