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Are you now starting to hear more about swine flu cases which are closer to home?

RichUK

RichUK

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I?ve spoken to three people in the past week (friends, family) who each said someone from their place of work had been sent home because of suspected swine flu. I understand they have been sent home as a precaution, so chances are they might not be infected, but when you exhibit symptoms such as high fever ?well, you know.

The thing that slightly worried me is that these three people have been in contact with people who are suspected to have swine flu and now they have been in contact with me.

I?m not too worried at this point as I haven?t consciously seen anyone sneeze or cough in close proximity to me, and I always make sure I wash my hands after going to the bog, etc. It?s just hearing about swine flu on the news is one thing, but hearing about cases in your home town is completely different and worrying.
 
I thought this all passed? No one in my house got sick cus I put lamb blood over my door. I heard it keeps the flu away.
 
Originally posted by: RichUK

The thing that slightly worried me is that these three people have been in contact with people who are suspected to have swine flu and now they have been in contact with me.
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you're doomed.

can i have your computer?

 
It has been all over the news in the UK... they start handing out vaccines to everyone in the country in at the end of sept to prepare for an expected increase of swine flu cases when flu season hits.
 
Originally posted by: drdops
It has been all over the news in the UK... they start handing out vaccines to everyone in the country in at the end of sept to prepare for an expected increase of swine flu cases when flu season hits.
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I guess a lot of things hit the UK late like toothbrushes, orthodontics.............
 
Suspected swine flu cases? Suspected by who, Dr. Human Resources Director?

*cough* *squeal-snort!*


 
Originally posted by: zerocool84
Originally posted by: drdops
It has been all over the news in the UK... they start handing out vaccines to everyone in the country in at the end of sept to prepare for an expected increase of swine flu cases when flu season hits.
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I guess a lot of things hit the UK late like toothbrushes, orthodontics.............
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Americans are morbidly obese and greasy.

I can play that game, too.
 
In NC they had 100 kids home but said they cannot confirm it was swine flu because they were not testing for it. Seemed odd not to be testing for it .
More than 100 kids were out yesterday, and almost 100 were out today.

Dozens and dozens of kids are missing from Tucker Creek Middle School in Havelock, and it looks like the flu might be to blame for many of the absences. Since last Thursday, about 20 kids have gone home sick everyday with the same symptoms -- fever, body aches, and sore throat. Nurses say it is the flu, and could even be the H1N1 virus. They cannot say for sure whether it is the swine flu because the state is no longer testing every possible case.

Although schools can be a breading ground for germs, parent and substitute teacher Diana Parisi says prevention is all about taking a few safety measures.

"It is just a matter of taking the right precautions, making sure your washing you hands, I'm not any more worried about this one, than i would be about any other one," she says.

School nurses say once kids at Tucker Creek get sick, it seems to only last two days. After the fever is gone, students can come back to school.
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My University had about a dozen confirmed cases, so much that a few professors canceled classes and they converted the gym into a temporary CDC clinic. :roll:

Guess what happened? They received proper medical care, had some bad flu-like symptoms, and were better in a few days. No fatalities whatsoever. Outside of 3rd world countries I fail to see the need for alarm.
 
Q: What are the signs and symptoms of the swine flu?
A: The symptoms of the swine flu are the same as that of the normal flu.

...Yeah. Unless I misunderstand, the swine flu is no worse than your average flu. That is, unless it mutates.

People make a huge deal out of all these outbreaks. SARS, Swine Flu, West Nile, etc. Chicken pox has killed more people than all of those combined. 😕
 
I swear half my neighborhood got the swine flu. It's possible that my wife even had it because she was feeling sick for a few days but we never got it checked out. The whole thing is passed and everything is normal now. Nobody got vaccines or did anything special. This was about 6 weeks ago.
 
It swept through my area about a month and a half ago. First, someone in my dad's business partner's family got it. Then, several people in his family including my dad's business partner got it. Then, my older brother (who works for my dad's business partner) got it. It went through my brother's family including my 5 year old nephew, who has severe health issues (ie. liver cancer at 2, respiratory problems resulting from chemo, currently has a trachea breathing tube). No one had to be hospitalized. Everyone is fine. Sure, it is highly contagious. But, it isn't deadly. News media has way overblown the issue.
 
Yeah definitely overblown. The only people who need to be watched are little kids, pregnant women, and the elderly - who should be watched anyway when they're sick.
 
Originally posted by: Fayd
i havent heard anything about swine flu in months.
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Oh it's still very very much out there. The CDC H1N1 website shows 43,771 confirmed cases with 302 deaths in the US as of now:

http://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/update.htm

However they suspect the real number to be in the hundreds of thousands if not a couple million because most cases will not be reported. Most of the deaths though are probably being caught because well, most people want to know why a loved one died. So the lethality rate of this disease doesn't seem to be much worse than the common seasonal flu. The only worrisome part is that since this is a novel strain no one has immunity so many many more people will get it compared to seasonal flu which many people usually have some amount of immunity to. Also of those who have died the majority seem to be young healthy people compared to influenza's normal victims, the elderly and infants. The reason for this is because for some reason this virus has the ability to illicit a drastic overreaction by the bodies immune system in some, and in those people it's their immune systems that are killing them. This is worrisome because it's the same mechanism that killed many in 1918. Still at the moment like I was saying the mortality rate seems like that of a normal flu.

The UK has over 100,000 cases and world wide there are millions and millions of cases all over the place.

This winter is when the case load will explode though as we go into the official flu season.
 
Originally posted by: Kelvrick
I thought there hasn't been a vaccine anyway. At least not one that isn't a placebo.
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There is a vaccine but it will go to the people that are most likely to get the flu first, like the people who created the vaccine 🙂
 
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