H1N1 in the house...

[MC Moot]

We have our first confirmed case in the building…pandemic plan being rolled out frantically…one more case amongst my colleagues in this division and we shut the program down for 21 day’s…whoa…holy hand washing baby’s…has the swine flu touched your life yet?

:eek:

[Bob]

is this still going on?

[MC Moot]

Yep,they're predicting revived and renewed outbreak throughout the fall...huge rush to hurry the vaccine...for front line staff/health care workers,educational institutes and such....

[hpdrifter]

Nothing yet. I sure hope I don't get it, I got the flu a coupla months ago and it was complete misery. I could barely walk.

[MC Moot]

This a public service announcement....without guitars… (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQbmRGGfOh4&feature=related)(y)

[roosta]

my friend got it,and is now over it.

says its a load of guff, just felt like shit for a few days.

[MC Moot]

Load of guff?… (http://www.cbc.ca/canada/calgary/story/2009/09/04/calgary-swine-flu-death-world-skills.html)

[PENisland]

This a public service announcement....without guitars… (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQbmRGGfOh4&feature=related)(y)

he sneezed like 40 times

[ms.peachy]

I'm having a hard time deciding how worried I should be about this. On the one hand, I don't want to buy into any panic, because, you know, maybe there's no need to panic. But on the other hand, well, I live in a place with a LOT of people, where hygeine standards are let's say 'highly variable' at best. I have mild asthma, and from what I gather, this strain attacks the lungs and can become quite serious quite quickly, and most of those adults outside Mexico who have died from it had prior health problems like asthma. Plus I had a chest infection last November-December that laid me to waste for like 8 weeks and it was really awful, and I am still taking daily steroid inhalation to boost my lung function. So I don't want to be all like "OMG the swine flu is coming to kill me" but honestly, I do wonder if maybe it is indeed coming to kill me.

[Randetica]

im a hypochondriac x 1000 but all those monster fluz never worried me, it feels like it's only something made up by the media

it's close but yet so far away

no one i know caught it but in worst case i hope that god will bless me the most!

[fucktopgirl]

You know how many death are related to ''normal '' influenza per year?

death from flu (http://www.wrongdiagnosis.com/f/flu/deaths.htm)

death from H1N1 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_flu_pandemic)

So, i don't think stressing out about this H1N1 is very constructive!

THis does not look like a pandemic to me.

[ms.peachy]

You know how many death are related to ''normal '' influenza per year?

death from flu (http://www.wrongdiagnosis.com/f/flu/deaths.htm)

death from H1N1 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_flu_pandemic)

So, i don't think stressing out about this H1N1 is very constructive!

The difference is though is that H1N1 fatalities are occurring in segments of the population that are not normally so affected by seasonal flu. With H1N1, groups such as the elderly and young children are not seeing as high a rate (proportionally) as otherwise more or less healthy adults in the 25-55 age bracket. The theory as I understand it is that H1N1 may be provoking the body's own immune system to overreact to the presence of the virus; thus, people with stronger immunse systems to begin with are actually more vulnerable to severe complications as a result. Bit of a Catch-22. With asthmatics, asthma is already thought to be an immune system overreaction, so coupled with H1N1 infection, it's thought that the respiratory system gets pushed into overdrive very quickly. So yes it's true, the 'regular' flu kills many people every year, but not in the "general adult" population as H1N1 is being seen in a significant proportion of cases to do - so I think it's worth watching, and being a bit wary about. As I said before, not to panic or 'stress out', but there's a danger I think in being too blase about it as well.