flu

Currently, the forthcoming flu season is about to start and everywhere there are messages to get your flu vaccine to keep the hospitals from being overwhelmed with flu on top of Covid-19 cases. Seems reasonable on its face. But influenza has a significantly lower R0 than Covid-19 and it is...

I apologize in advance if this has been covered elsewhere on the forum, my search did not reveal discussion on these particular questions. I post this here not because of any general vaccine skepticism but in hopes of picking the brains of some more medically-informed members. I feel compelled...

In another forum I sometimes post in, there is an individual who has made the claim that the Mortality rate from Influenza has not decreased since the introduction of vaccine programs. (The person making the claim has not yet provided any evidence supporting their claims.) Now, I don't want...

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/SwineFluNews/georgia-h1n1-cases-spike-low-vaccination-rates-blamed/story?id=10238235

This has nothing to do with vaccination refusal nor anything like that, I wanted desperately to get the vaccine for my family. But what makes me wonder now is that, AFAIK, H1N1 is less dangerous than the regular flu, and so there is no real reason to run to get the vaccine anymore. Of course I...

Finally I can get the vaccine for my daughter, she is 6 years old. The vaccines are Pandemrix and/or Celvapan. I'm not sure we will be able to choose, but in case we can.. is there proof about one being better/having less side effects, etc than the other?

I've read a few recent news reports that suggested that the H1N1 pandemic has 'peaked' in much of the world (including North America). Here where I live, the government has already started to disband emergency flu clinics. I thought this was surprising... flu season doesn't even really start...

I've recently seen an article appearing in the CBC news (One of Canada's national TV/Radio outlets.) In the article, they quote a Dr. Jim Wright... From: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/10/28/f-vaccination-debate.html Health researchers argue that the only way to know about a vaccine's true...

Most who die from new H1N1 flu had conditions: CDC Near half of [hospitalized] swine flu patients otherwise healthy These are both reports in Yahoo on the same day about the same medical report from CDC. In the first article it says: Technically "most" had an underlying medical condition. But...

Fellow skeptics, someone posted this on facebook, she normally gives good links.. but I dont know about this, I confess I'm ignorant so I leave it for you: http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs001/1101240076659/archive/1102758254596.html btw, regarding the flu (h1h1 previously swine)... how...

And anyone else who wants to chime in. Last week my neighbor's 14 year old was diagnosed with 2009H1N1. The boy's physician told them Tamiflu was being reserved for high risk patients only and the doc did not prescribe the drug for the boy. I don't see it that way and I wrote him a script...

For some reason they stopped tested folks for H1N1 in our area (my mother-in-law is a nurse in the area and she said because of cost considerations)--but they continued testing anyone under one. My daughter, 10 months old, was really sick and we had to take her to the hospital. They did the...

We had a discussion the other day, at work, about the current flu pandemic. Here we have posters warning people to wash hands, cough in their sleeve, the stuff. Many of us travel regularly and meet all sort of precautions at airports (expecially the Chinese go through a lot og antics). But once...

Ok my mother does church work at a trailor park with illegal immigrant Mexicans. She caught the flu and I caught it from her. We have both recovered. The symptoms are low grade fever and coughing up massive amounts of phlem. It lasted six days but overall its not as bad as the regular...

My Aunt died in a hospital of complications of a seasonal flu. During her life she had been very health consciounce and didn't do anything to comprimise her health. She was 75 years old. My problem is this. Why weren't the doctors able to save her? She was given fever reducing medication...

I get vaccinated most years against seasonal flu, but I have seen comments about how ineffective it is. I've not paid close enough attention to draw my own conclusion, but have simply assumed that if the NHS has decided it's a good thing for vulnerable patients then I'd like some of that...

I moved a bit away from my planned lectures on environmental science for my two freshmen biology sections to focus on this current and very teachable event, and thought that other educators may find these lecture notes and resources useful. First off, the google swine flu map provides an...

The US government is treating it like its going to be.

It was only a matter of time http://www.republicanoperative.com/forums/late-breaking-news/19550-swine-flu-3.html#post244948

You know the minute it was reported to be a strange mix.... What Is With This Swine Flu? Swine Flu Is Deadly Mix Of Never-Before-Seen Viruses New Flu Outbreak Traced to Missing U.S. Army Bioweapons Lab / International SOS Warning / Strange Swine Flu Virus Found In California Folks, it's...

As you may have heard, there's a flu epidemic in Mexico which is causing quite a bit of a scare. Even more scary is this email that not one, but two loons sent to the missus (translated from Spanish into English for your convenience): (If the English version at times does not seem to make...

I just heard on TV the CDC was talking about a swine-flu outbreak from Mexico in the SW USA, eight people in San Diego are currently infected. Do you think this will end up becoming an epidemic or pandemic and be an excuse for the government to declare Martial Law? INRM

I heard something on TV just now about a swine-flu infection among 8 people in the Southwest USA connected to Mexico. To the best of my knowledge the people infected in San Diego. Disturbingly I think the strain is H1N1 which is the same one to the best of my knowledge that caused the 1918 Flu...

Last year a previously healthy 20 yr old attending the same college as my son died of influenza (flu) when he got MRSA pneumonia with it. The CDC reported that after a couple years of sporadic cases, last year they saw a worrisome increase in MRSA pneumonia associated with influenza that was...

Flu season is coming up and after all the arguments on this forum I was considering getting a flu vaccination this year. I looked on the NHS direct site which seems to discourage those with low risk of complications from getting vaccinated...

Pregnant women who get respiratory infections in the second trimester are up to seven times more likely to have a child with schizophrenia. There is also an increased risk of autism... http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22079262-24331,00.html

This was posted in a Physician only list serve: What is your response?

I overheard someone say this at work. I looked around but could find nothing. No information saying there was one, none saying there wasn't. Not even anti-vac websites I found seemed to say this. Is there anyone here who might have some greater insight? My googling has failed me. Thanks.

http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/business/16083483.htm With good advice! They discuss a supplement made by a 2nd grade school teacher with :eye-poppi With a flu kit at the local pharmacy that has vitamin C supplements, it's nice to see an article with sound advice and a critical look at supposed...

Are flu shots just another money making gimmick? Do they protect only against previous years strains and are not effective against yet unknown strains? Is real influenza pretty rare and when most people say the got the flu the didn't have it and it was not something that would have been stopped...