Posted Just found out that my little bro and like 20 other mids at the navy are in quarentine with honest to goodness swine flu. Sooo, that sucks.

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doom! be vaccinated or not against the influenza A H1N1, which is in brackets, a distant heir to the Spanish flu! For most of us, we are rehashing the ears, saying that this virus is Benin? by cons it is contaminated! that influenza A H1N1, would not more deaths than seasonal flu, etc. …. Note that in a previous survey, respondents say they will be vaccinated at 55%, 29% of these same people are certain to make this vaccination against the influenza virus swine! 25% of people surveyed are completely against this vaccination. It is the same among staff nurses and physicians, health professionals, who will have priority, are not inclined to such vaccination. 1 / 3 of this staff are reluctant to proceed or to refuse to do. On the Internet, the anti-vaccine girppe A H1N1 organized. On YouTube, a clip forcefully denounces images of the needle “Big pharma”. On Facebook, a group of “Refusing the H1N1 Swine Flu Vaccines” calls to join the anti-vaccination of swine flu. On television talk shows are organized endlessly on the immunization of influenza A H1N1, with their advocates and detractors. What? and especially what to do? get vaccinated against the influenza A H1N1, or just wait … Anyway if this flu reaches us it is always subject, to take drugs like Tamiflu. The vaccine against influenza A H1N1, which has been done in a hurry … Will there be side effects … big question that remains suspended!. Which “Saint”, should he turn? Are you personally willing to get vaccinated against swine flu?.

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TUESDAY, Sept. 22 (HealthDay News) — With all the warnings and preparations, dire predictions and hastily ordered vaccines, could the growing worry about H1N1 swine flu prove more disruptive than the actual outbreak?

That notion is weighing on the minds of more than a few infectious-disease experts as the fall and winter flu season looms.

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Act One: The Story of Swine Flu and What It Feels Like to Be Sick With It I want you. I shall seek & find you. I shall take u 2 bed & have my way with you. I will make u ache, shake & sweat till u moan & groan. I will make u beg 4 mercy. I will exhaust u 2 the point that u will be relieved when I’m finished with you & you will be weak for days. All my love, Swine Flu –Anonymous Internet humor Some worry nonstop about it. Others are in denial. Many simply don’t know what to think. Even more joke about it and don’t give it the respect it deserves. Swine flu is the Rodney Dangerfield of pandemics. There is something diminutive about the swine flu “meme” or “brand” which leads otherwise sane people to consider dismissing it, resisting vaccination whenever it becomes available. My colleagues call it a “mild pandemic” — an ironic oxymoron like “jumbo shrimp.” In ten years as a professor of epidemiology, I never saw the word “mild” and “pandemic” in the same paragraph, let alone used in the way the adjective “mild” seems to take the fearsome edge off of the show-stopping noun “pandemic.” We don’t even agree on its name. Pork industry lobbyists pressured the mighty U.S. Government to cease calling it “swine flu” so now government agencies call it by the more readily dismissed “Novel H1N1 Influenza.” Bird flu is still bird flu. Mad cow is still mad cow. Monkeypox is still monkeypox. I guess the monkey, bird, and cow lobbies weren’t as effective as pork, because they are still named after their primary animal hosts, while swine flu has been unceremoniously dismounted off its first ride like a neophyte equestrian. And those in the media who have not caved in to the pork lobby can’t decide whether to hyphenate it (swine-flu), capitalize it (Swine Flu), or concatenate it (swineflu). Medically, swine flu is, like monkeypox, bird flu and mad cow disease, something we call a “zoonosis” — a disease, like rabies, which has an animal (swine, birds, cows, monkeys, bats, etc.) as its primary host and humans become accidental or secondary victims at least before the virus begins to spread human to human. And swine flu is a virus, like other influenza diseases, or like measles, mumps, polio or smallpox. Can you imagine a faux love letter like the one above being written about smallpox? Compare Lord Macaulay’s classic literary description of smallpox: The smallpox was always present, filling the churchyards with corpses, tormenting with constant fears all whom it had stricken, leaving on those whose lives it spared the hideous traces of its power, turning the babe into a changeling at which the mother shuddered, and making the eyes and cheeks of the bighearted maiden objects of horror to the lover. -T.B. Macaulay The History of England from the Accession of James II, Vol IV Somehow “swine flu” lacks a muse like Macaulay to conjure vivid images of its casualties — and no Gabriel García Márquez has arisen to write a poignant homage the time of Swine Flu. Why? Probably because this pandemic is less a danger to the health of any specific individual than it is to the public health of the nation and the world; it is less a threat to any one person’s individual well-being, and more to society as a whole. It has a low case-fatality rate, but it is the fastest spreading disease and will ultimately infect the greatest number of people in recorded history. So make no mistake, this pandemic has the potential — although clearly not the certainty — to wreck havoc on our community, our society, our hospitals, and our economy and even, only a bit farther fetched, our national security. Just think about this: if the “normal, seasonal, yearly” flu kills 35,000 Americans and between a quarter and half million people globally each year, how many may die if the “case-fatality rate” were the same, but the number of people who catch this disease increases by ten fold? Best estimates today: we should expect that 2 to 3 billion worldwide will contract swine flu; and about 100 million Americans will be sick from it, depending on when vaccine is available. These 100 million Americans will be sick for about a week each, losing half-billion days of work or school. And those half billion days won’t be much fun at all, not at all. Let me tell you about my own “dance” with swine flu, and then I will do an epidemiologist’s primer on what makes a pandemic “mild,” “moderate” or “severe” and third and lastly, let me address the pros and cons of getting yourself and your family vaccinated and what other steps you can take to stay healthy and safe. Swine Bites Doc “Epidemiologist gets swine flu” is not as catchy a news headline as “man bites dog” but it is cut from the same ironic cloth. And if the pandemic peaks before sufficient vaccine is available, it won’t be news anymore: just based on random probability one third to one half of doctors, epidemiologists, senators, congressmen, Heads of State, football players and Fortune 500 CEOs, cops and robbers, plumbers and celebrities will also get swine flu. And while few will die, some will, and even more will go to the ER, or their doctor, and overwhelm a health care system which is broken and does not have sufficient “surge capacity” to handle a load like this. And this pattern, plus or minus a few months, plus or minus hospital capacity, respirators, and good clinical care, will occur all over the world. I got sick a couple of days after I had agreed to write this post for Huffington Post, about two weeks ago. I do hope those two events were unrelated, needless to say. You should not read too much into my own personal experience with the swine; yours will be different. But my swine flu was not a lovable affair, it was not a joke, and it was not “mild.” I spent three nights of aches and pains, and chills and fever. My sheets were soaked with sweat and the sound of my teeth chattering kept me awake. I tried a hot bath in the middle of the night and was so weak I could hardly get out of tub unassisted. Although my temperature stayed below 102 degrees F, the teeth-chattering chills felt more like the two cases of malaria I had years ago in Asia than ordinary flu. I self-quarantined at home, drank lots of teas and sugar-free sports drinks to rehydrate, took ibuprofen for aches and fever and treated myself with the anti-viral drug oseltamivir phosphate (Tamiflu) and watched many, er, ah…. therapeutic movies and was still out of work for a week, and weak for days afterward. But while I was never sick enough to consider going to see my doctor or going to an ER, I would not wish this disease on anyone and I certainly would have preferred a vaccination to this teeth-rattling bug. Most poignantly, even though I tried to stay isolated, I infected one of my children who also spent a lousy sweat soaked teeth chattering week dancing with the swine. No loving parent would ever want to spread this disease to his or her kids. If the sole reason to get vaccinated were only to prevent my spreading this disease to my family and community that alone would make getting vaccinated an easy choice for me. Coming soon on HuffPost: Act Two — the epidemiology of swine flu and its public health consequences and Act Three — a doctor’s advice to good friends on how to stay healthy and safe during the pandemic.

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Swine Influenza (swine flu) is a respiratory disease of pigs caused by type A influenza virus that regularly causes outbreaks of influenza in pigs. Swine flu viruses cause high levels of illness and low death rates in pigs. Swine influenza viruses may circulate among swine throughout the year, but most outbreaks occur during the late fall and winter months similar to outbreaks in humans. The classical swine flu virus (an influenza type A H1N1 virus) was first isolated from a pig in 1930.

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NEW YORK — The Food and Drug Administration says it confirmed three new cases of a potentially lethal brain inflammation linked to the multiple sclerosis drug Tysabri.

There have been 13 reported cases of progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy, or PML, since mid-2006. The reports are the first confirmed new cases since June. While the disease is rare, the FDA says the risk appears to increase as patients remain on Tysabri.

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The CDC recommends that all people between the ages of 6months and 24 yrs as well as seniors and those with compromised immune systems get immunized against the flu as well as receive the H1N1 (Swine Flu) vaccine.

So let me get this straight…usually, when a drug is developed that can cure things like, hmm….say certain types of cancers or can prevent the spread of cancers…testing goes on for years before people can even apply to try out the drug in a clinical trial.  In this case, drug companies have been rushing since spring, yup, a whole 6 months ago, to prepare a vaccine and have obviously not had the proper time to test the long term effects, but we should all run and get immunized.  I wonder how many of these drug company executives are actually getting their families immunized.

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Please for the love educate yourself about influenza strains, vaccination risks, and the public health laws in your state that may require you or your children to undergo either mandatory vaccination or quarantine.

Eliminate sugar and processed foods from your diet. Sugar consumption has an immediate, debilitating effect on your immune system. Take a high quality source of animal-based omega 3 fats like Krill Oil. Exercise. Your immune system needs good circulation in order to perform at its best for you. Optimize your vitamin D levels. Vitamin D deficiency is the likely cause of seasonal flu viruses. Getting an optimal level of vitamin D will help you fight infections of all kinds. Get plenty of good quality sleep. Deal with stress effectively. If you feel overwhelmed by stress, your body will not have the reserves it needs to fight infection. Wash your hands. But not with an antibacterial soap. Use a pure, chemical-free soap.

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