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29th September 2009 #1
swine flu vaccine..would you have it?
with an underlying health condition, my surgery wrote to me today to ask if i would consider having the vaccine in oct.... i really dont know know if i want it.. what do you guys think?
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29th September 2009 #2
Why not.
If you have a health condition you should be getting the noraml flu vaccine every year. I get mine on Thursday .....and maybe Swine flu next week.
If you have an underlying health condition you stand a very higher chance of dying from the illness+flu than a healthy person.Keith Driscoll - Administrator
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29th September 2009 #3
im scared, i ean have they even tested this vaccine properly,
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30th September 2009 #6God grant me the serenity to accept the things i cannot change, the courage to change the things i can and the wisdom to hide the bodies of those people i had to kill because they pissed me off.
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30th September 2009 #8God grant me the serenity to accept the things i cannot change, the courage to change the things i can and the wisdom to hide the bodies of those people i had to kill because they pissed me off.
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30th September 2009 #13God grant me the serenity to accept the things i cannot change, the courage to change the things i can and the wisdom to hide the bodies of those people i had to kill because they pissed me off.
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30th September 2009 #14
I get one every year as well, it's nothing to worry about, the swine flu vaccine will be just the same as all of the other flu vaccines they've been giving people for years because it's made exactly the same way and remember, most of the take up for these annual vaccines are people who are generally quite vulnerable like old age pensioners and people with weakened immune systems etc.
Iain.
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30th September 2009 #16
My doctor is giving me a little prick tomorrow
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30th September 2009 #17
Like i said, I want to know in more detail who the target population for the vaccine is..
WHO recommendations for pandemic (H1N1) 2009 vaccination
* vaccinating healthcare workers should be first priority
* individual countries will need to determine priority of vaccination for other groups based on country-specific conditions, groups may include
- o pregnant women
- o children > 6 months old and adults with specific chronic medical conditions
- o healthy young adults aged 15-49 years
- o healthy children
- o healthy adults aged 50-64 years
- o healthy adults ≥ 65 years old
Source- Harford Hospital Health LibraryIt's time to kick ass and chew bubble gum. And I'm all out of gum.
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30th September 2009 #18
I come under No.1 I caught it off Mrs Daddy
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30th September 2009 #19
i work in the N.H.S....i will take the flu vaccine...and the swine flu vaccine...partly because of my job...but part of me wants it to....the good thing about the swine flu vaccine...is it is not a live vaccine...so hopefully no bad side effects...i hope..lol
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It is impossible to state anything with any certainty, the influenza virus is extremely prone to mutation.
In the 1918-1920 flu pandemic the first wave affected young healthy adults, by the time the much more deadly second wave came round it had mutated a bit and the primary victims were back to being the elderly and children.
The big fear is that the pattern of this virus is strikingly similar so far to the 1918 outbreak and the worry is that the second wave, like the 1918 virus, could be a lot worse.
Jim
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1st October 2009 #28
One of the main reasons the 1918-1920 flu pandemic killed so many people in the West is that many had lowered immune systems after years of bad diet due to the war, hygenie was bad, and life expectancy a lot lower, it is not really comparable with the West today.
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The 1918 strain was genetically sequenced in 2005 and was recreated in 2007, not sure exactly how but I think it was from the same tissue samples, from that time, that had been used for the sequencing.
In 2007 the recreated virus was used in experiments on monkeys who exhibited the symptoms of the 1918 pandemic and died from a cytokine storm, which was the prevailing cause of death in young healthy adults at the time.
I'm not scaremongering but one day something is going to cull the population to greater or lesser degree whether we like it or not :(
Jim
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