Article: No need to panic over swine flu

The Department of Health says there is no need to panic should there be an increase in the cases of influenza, including H1N1 (swine flu). "The pandemic influenza A (H1N1) virus, commonly known as "swine flu" ... is now a seasonal influenza virus that co-circulates with other seasonal viruses.
 
Yeah, my 5 year old daughter just got it. 4 days off school and she was right as rain, neither myself or the mrs got it. No biggie...
 
Prior to the World Cup last year, all of the military personnel involved - certainly on the medical side of things, such as myself - were inoculated against H1N1, and we certainly not the only ones getting the shots. So far as I know, and please correct me if I'm wrong, there wasn't a single recorded case of swine flu during the soccer tournament. The shots we were given before hand though? Oy gevaldt, I don't think I've ever had flu as badly as I did after I had that shot, and it'd be interesting to know how many man-days we lost because people were so sick from the inoculation.

I'm not one of the misguided people who say immunisations are dangerous & so on, or that you shouldn't get your flu shot because it *will* make you sick, and you'll probably still get flu afterwards anyway, as that's patently false. It does however happen that *some* people will become sick after a flu shot, and in the context of there not having been any swine flu cases during the world cup - again, that I know of - you have to wonder if it wouldn't have been far more cost effective and less disruptive to just treat cases when / if they occurred, rather than mass inoculations?

Then again, it's easy to say this looking back with 20/20 hindsight, I'll be the first to admit.....
 
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My missus is a doctor in the public sector and they've seen loads of this. It really isn't a big deal, however. Just stay in bed and take your medication as prescribed and you'll be fine.
 
Kaine said:
pity it isnt the killer flu. the world could use a 15 or 20% reduction of the human race
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Viruses are iffy, either they level everyone, or, they don't kill enough people fast enough (Ebola vs AIDS).

History has proven, is that the best thing to kill people, is other more heavily armed people...
 
scotty777 said:
Viruses are iffy, either they level everyone, or, they don't kill enough people fast enough (Ebola vs AIDS).

History has proven, is that the best thing to kill people, is other more heavily armed people...
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the black plague would like to have a word with you. but then again, it had help from bad sanitation and people killing cats instead of rats
 
Stay healthy, eat healthy, plenty of sleep and you'll dodge most of the green loogies doing their rounds.
 
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