H1N1 (Swine Flu) is back are you prepared?

Lando Griffin

Not to scare monger but the deadly highly contagious H1N1 bird-flu virus is back.
This global pandemic has all ready caused the death of one lady in Canada.

http://o.canada.com/uncategorized/health-canada-urges-doctors-to-inoculate-patients-against-h1n1-flu-virus/

"“Uncontrollable, catastrophic risks”

I didn't sleep all night worrying about it as I feel a bit fluey myself so pray to God I don't get it.

Will the Government provide us with jabs again this time?

Could this have mutated into some super bird flu virus?

How many millions will die?

o1s1n

Don't worry, normal flu can kill you too.

.Henry Sellers.

I just had a bowl of Chicken noodles!! WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME SOONER!!

whiskeyman

Time to buy more shares in big pharma

davo2001

Lol, they can vaccinate all they want against H1N1, it won't do any good since the guy died from the H5N1 strain.

Rayne Wooney

I'm not a bird, neither the winged nor the vajayjay bearing kind, so should be okay

flynnlives

this isnt a pandemic!

the pig one was, h1n5 was it called?

however this hasnt managed to become highly contagious. If it did it would have spread as quick as the pig one did.

Seaneh

Had n1h1 in summer 2009. Was ****ing harsh.

I knew I shouldn't have ****ed that bird from Coppers the other night.

humbert

Lando Griffin wrote: »

This global pandemic has all ready caused the death of one lady in Canada.

Worth opening the thread just for that line.

Duggy747

A little help from the anti-vaccination crowd, no doubt.

Jon_459

Read the article :

"But the hard part will be persuading people to be inoculated. Not even past threats of a full-blown pandemic have been enough to convince the majority of Canadians to get a flu shot.
“Uncontrollable, catastrophic risks” scare people the most, says Dr. Kumanan Wilson, a senior scientist at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute.
“When you create the image of flu in your head, you don’t think of it as a catastrophic illness.”

Kumann is not applying "Uncontrollable, catastrophic risks" to the ourbreak in Canada

Legs.Eleven

I've got my iodine tablet knocking about in my "stuff drawer" somewhere, so I'm sorted.

preston johnny

It'll never take off

xzanti

My Sons birth coincided with the swine flu outbreak in the Rotunda... the night he was born I was put into a big empty ward and the nurse came down to check on us wearing a disease mask.

That'll fairly put the shíts up ya.

dpofloinn

Im so prepared im getting my own extreme prepers show

Wossack

another year, another overblown epidemic scare

SweepTheLeg

I remember the big fuss over that a few years ago. Never seemed to bother me, and still doesn't.

Typical scaremongering from the media again, I wonder which Pharmaceutical company will profit big this time around.

GLaDOS

I'm off to Madagascar so

Daqster

Duggy747 wrote: »

A little help from the anti-vaccination crowd, no doubt.

Well, I'm sure the 'correlation does not equal causation' crowd will gladly set them right.

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Pure scaremongering from weather.com:
http://www.weather.com/health/cold-flu-outlook/deadly-h1n1-spreading-across-us-20140106

The calendar says 2014, but health officials and flu victims might feel like it’s 2009 all over again. The H1N1 flu strain — which was responsible for the 2009 swine flu pandemic — has dominated this season’s flu scene, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

“[Usually] the most common problem from the flu isn’t the virus itself, but the bacteria and pneumonia that the virus sets you up for,” Bruce Hirsch, M.D., an infectious disease specialist at North Shore Long Island Jewish Hospital in New York, told weather.com. “(But) this season — unlike few others — we’re seeing this H1N1 flu cause viral pneumonia in and of itself and causing an occasionally fatal flu in young adults who would not be otherwise vulnerable."

“H1N1 seems to be a character — a bad actor — and causing more problems [than other flu strains],” said Dr. Hirsch. “So far the outbreak of this flu season seem to me, as an infectious disease practitioner, to be more dramatic and more severe. It seems to be a little bit of an explosive onset, and what I’ve seen in my patients is a few cases trickling in and then boom! It’s much more common.”

Late last month, health officials in Texas confirmed that the H1N1 flu killed six people. Officials expressed some concern because this year’s flu vaccine is designed to help prevent H1N1 cases.

Texas isn’t the only state dealing with H1N1 cases. Here are some of the states battling the swine flu:

Michigan. Swine flu has killed three adults, and infected about a dozen more child and adults. These patients remain on life support, according to The Detroit Free Press.
California. Last week, Santa Clara Health Department officials reported the state’s first flu death of the season. The victim tested positive for the H1N1 strain, and other counties have also reported positive tests for the virus. In addition to seven cases in Santa Clara County, Marin County and Contra Costa County have reported several cases of swine flu, according to NBC Bay Area.
Oregon. Health officials confirmed two deaths from H1N1 flu, and another 81 hospitalizations, according to King 5 News.
Utah. Utah officials warn that swine flu is on the rise, and could be responsible for the first two flu deaths reported last week, according to The Salt Lake Tribune.
North Carolina. The flu has killed 13 people in North Carolina, according to USA Today.
The CDC reports that the flu is now widespread in more than half of the country, with many states reporting severe outbreaks. As of the last weekly flu advisory report, widespread activity has been reported in Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada, New York, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington state and Wyoming.

Scouser

no point in getting into a flap about it

just another scaremonger-er crying fowl

The Diabolical Monocle

Scouser wrote: »

no point in getting into a flap about it

just another scaremonger-er crying fowl

True enough, the people responding are simply egging him on.

Scouser

The Diabolical Monocle wrote: »

True enough, the people responding are simply egging him on.

well lets hope the medical world and governments can hatch a plan to over come such a disaster

otherwise we're just giving the nutters free range to stage a worrisome mass media coup

MetLuver

Scouser wrote: »

well lets hope the medical world and governments can hatch a plan to over come such a disaster

otherwise we're just giving the nutters free range to stage a worrisome mass media coup

Now just hold on an organic corn fed minute, is this cock spreading lies and deliberately sending everyone into a flutter? He is making an announcment to the world tonight on the nine o'clock news and we're all waiting with basted breath.

Gbear

Healthcare has certainly improved immeasurably since WW1, and I'm sure being stuck in a smelly trench didn't help matters, but sooner or later something like the Spanish flu is going to roll around again and kill a whole load of people.

Probably including asthmatic me.

In the mean time get your bloody seasonal flu jabs. It reduces the number of things that can kill you.

Scouser

MetLuver wrote: »

Now just hold on an organic corn fed minute, is this cock spreading lies and deliberately sending everyone into a flutter? He is making an announcment to the world tonight on the nine o'clock news and we're all waiting with basted breath.

listen, these guys are just looking to give someone a roasting

what should we do? flock together?

MetLuver

Scouser wrote: »

listen, these guys are just looking to give someone a roasting

what should we do? flock together?

I read a bwawk on how to deal with people like this, we'll have to get cracking and come up with a good plan soon. If we leave it too long no one will give a cluck.

The Diabolical Monocle

MetLuver wrote: »

I read a bwawk on how to deal with people like this, we'll have to get cracking and come up with a good plan soon. If we leave it too long no one will give a cluck.

You keep your beak out.

H1N1 is "swine" Flu - Not bird flu.

Tzardine

Bird flu has been created by the Irish government and the Illuminati in order to kidnap the children or Ireland and put them into state controlled slavery camps. Its all written in statute.*








* I may have been reading the Freeman thread earlier .

Lando Griffin

Deleted User wrote: »

H1N1 is "swine" Flu - Not bird flu.

Mods, please change the title from Bird to Swine.:mad:

Lando Griffin

Lando Griffin wrote: »

Mods, please change the title from Bird to Swine.:mad:

I wasn't trying to be pedantic, it just makes a fairly big difference to whether or not you're immune to it!

I had H1N1 so I'm safe enough. I will never forget it. It was absolutely horrific. I felt like I was dying - I'm not even kidding.

kneemos

Lando Griffin wrote: »

Mods, please change the title from Bird to Swine.:mad:

It's bird flu that's back not swine flu.

Gatling

Mr.S wrote: »

Got it the first time, greatly exaggerated it was!

Spent 12 days in an isolation room in tallaght hospital a year ago after contracting the asian version in a&e it very well nearly killed me

linvoysblues

Also had it last time, wanted the ground to swallow me up. I won't be in a hurry to get it again, I'm not leaving my house until I get the all clear.

kowloon

Deleted User wrote: »

H1N1 is "swine" Flu - Not bird flu.

People confuse the two, let's just hope Swine and Bird Flu never combine, but Pigs will fly before that happens.

MonsterCookie

ScienceNerd wrote: »

I'm off to Madagascar so

Didn't realise it was still on...you know...in the cinema like....

No? Anybody?

I'll get me coat...

Wellyd

Rayne Wooney wrote: »

I'm not a bird, neither the winged nor the vajayjay bearing kind, so should be okay

There is boiling hot tea running out of my nostrils. I think I may have scalded a part of my brain. But it was worth it for the laugh I got from that comment!

PucaMama

Deleted User wrote: »

I wasn't trying to be pedantic, it just makes a fairly big difference to whether or not you're immune to it!

I had H1N1 so I'm safe enough. I will never forget it. It was absolutely horrific. I felt like I was dying - I'm not even kidding.

You do no you can get it again? Flu strains mutate from season to season.

All these people who don't care about the swine flu are the type who will pass it to everyone. They pass no heed on any warnings then end up sick themselves and give it to their family and friends.

kowloon

I got Swine Flu twice in the same year, I hadn't developed the immunity the first time around.

sullivlo

PucaMama wrote: »

You do no you can get it again? Flu strains mutate from season to season.

All these people who don't care about the swine flu are the type who will pass it to everyone. They pass no heed on any warnings then end up sick themselves and give it to their family and friends.

The H1N1 is the mutation / strain so if you have had it previously you will have a level of acquired immunity but it would be recommended if you are in the "at risk" category you should get the vaccine.

Edit: I think the seasonal flu shot this year had h1n1 in it too.

PucaMama

sullivlo wrote: »

The H1N1 is the mutation / strain so if you have had it previously you will have a level of acquired immunity but it would be recommended if you are in the "at risk" category you should get the vaccine.

Edit: I think the seasonal flu shot this year had h1n1 in it too.

not sure but people shouldnt be told it gives a false sense of security

Lando Griffin

PucaMama wrote: »

not sure but people shouldnt be told it gives a false sense of security

Or people told what is in it.

PucaMama

Lando Griffin wrote: »

Or people told what is in it.

i mean people shouldnt no about whats in it they get too careless

PucaMama

PucaMama wrote: »

You do no you can get it again? Flu strains mutate from season to season.

All these people who don't care about the swine flu are the type who will pass it to everyone. They pass no heed on any warnings then end up sick themselves and give it to their family and friends.

I have implemented hospital policies on influenza and specifically H1N1.

PucaMama

Deleted User wrote: »

I have implemented hospital policies on influenza and specifically H1N1.

people still dont apreciate the danger of flu no matter what policies we have

sullivlo

Lando Griffin wrote: »

Or people told what is in it.

But the predicted flu virus is readily available online. I always get the vaccine (asthma - ended up in hospital last time I had the flu) but out of curiosity (I'm a scientist) I look up the vaccines. It's interesting that Northern and Southern Hemisphere flu vaccines are different.

PucaMama

PucaMama wrote: »

people still dont apreciate the danger of flu no matter what policies we have

Scaremongering doesn't help either. It is extremely rare for a person to contract the same strain of virus twice.

PucaMama

Deleted User wrote: »

Scaremongering doesn't help either. It is extremely rare for a person to contract the same strain of virus twice.

What if its not exactly the same and we dont no yet???

PucaMama

PucaMama wrote: »

What if its not exactly the same and we dont no yet???

Then it's not H1N1