influenza

So I heard about this first from my wife, who read about it in the Japanese media. Apparently the experts here in Japan are worried about a bad flu season this year and are urging everyone to get vaccinated for the flu. I'm very pro-vaccine myself and will likely get mine just to be safe. But I...

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...

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...

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...

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091029125538.htm I wonder if simply drinking and eating them offers any protection? On a side note, I have been unable to find the swine flu vaccine... but I can get the seasonal one.. will it offer some kind of protection? From scattered reports...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

First, what do you make of this headline: "Flu shots leave heart failure patients at risk"? Then go to the article and see whether you think the implication matches the actual story. http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080329/hl_nm/heart_flu_dc_1 Maybe I'm getting too sensitive, maybe not.