I had the swine flu and its not as bad as regular fluu.

[Cainkane1]

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 seasonal flu. Lots of water, asperin and bed rest was all it took to get through this disease.

 

[casebro]

How do you know it was swine flu?

How old are you? Were you around during the SF of the mid seventies?

But that doesn't sound all that mild to me.

 

[Rolfe]

Luciana's saying in Community that she's got it, and one or two others have also joined in. They speak of a nasty painful cough rather than a head cold sort of thing, but nobody seems to be particularly sick.

Rolfe.

 

[Delscottio]

I had it a month or so back, not at all bad. The fever was the worse symptom imo, more an inconvenience yuk than a illness for me.

Cainkane1, I found the cough continues with the phlegm for a good few weeks (may be I gave up smoking 3 month ago - not sure)

 

[Lennart Hyland]

Well I have a friend that is in the intensive care for swine flu. There is some troubles with his liver, he has fever and pneumonia. Doesnt look too good.

 

[Wudang]

2 of the fittest people I know had it and it was full blown flu - laid up in bed for 2 weeks. My wife was diagnosed as suspected swine flu, issued tamiflu etc and I think she just had a bit of a cold.

 

[paximperium]

I've dealt with 3 young(less than 30 years old) healthy patient's with CONFIRMED H1N1Nobel Influenza. One died after a week in the hospital, one had a breathing tube and was in the ICU for 2 weeks and one was admitted in the hospital for a day. I've also suspected dozens of others who did perfectly well.

Did you have a point?

 

[paximperium]

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 seasonal flu. Lots of water, asperin and bed rest was all it took to get through this disease.

It's not the flu. Doesn't even remotely sound like it. Did you actually get tested for H1N1 or even a Rapid Influenza A test?
http://www.cdc.gov/flu/professionals/acip/clinical.htm

 

[Cainkane1]

It's not the flu. Doesn't even remotely sound like it. Did you actually get tested for H1N1 or even a Rapid Influenza A test?
http://www.cdc.gov/flu/professionals/acip/clinical.htm

No but the Doctor said it was the flu because several other people had come in with this disease. it felt like regular flu and the fever and coughing up of phlegm was a symptom of swine flu. Also the disease was traced back to the Mexican immigrant trailor park.

 

[casebro]

Immigrants get regular ol' flu too. Also tuberculosis and...

 

[Uncayimmy]

Immigrants get regular ol' flu too. Also tuberculosis and...

Yeh, but these were illegal immigrants!

Here in Phoenix there's a lot of travel across the border, legal and illegal. I'm no expert in tracking outbreaks, but it seems to me the that the more people travel (especially into areas with outbreaks), the greater the chances of spreading the disease. School just started in a number of districts, so I wouldn't be surprised to see an increase of cases here.

 

[JoeTheJuggler]

The CDC list 7,983 hospitalized cases and a total of 522 deaths from H1N1 in the U.S. (includes the 50 states plus D.C., American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands).

But this is still the off season for flu. Historically, these avian-swine-human flues have been dangerous. I plan to get the vaccine as soon as it becomes available to me.

 

[Undesired Walrus]

Ok my mother does church work at a trailor park with illegal immigrant Mexicans.

At the beginning of the outbreak this may have been suspicious, but right now it's as likely that you will catch the virus from working with a group of Ukranian sci-fi writers as you would from immigrant Mexicans. It's not like Mexico is ground zero any more.

The CDC list 7,983 hospitalized cases and a total of 522 deaths from H1N1 in the U.S. (includes the 50 states plus D.C., American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands).

Confirmed, but it is widely suspected that far over one million have caught the virus in the states.

I plan to get the vaccine as soon as it becomes available to me.

You probably got a long wait. In the UK the healthy expect to get the vaccine next year sometime.

I'm far more worried about the ongoing Avian Flu myself. Consider the following: In 1918, the 'mother of all pandemics', the mortality rate was 2% (We ended up with 50-70 Million dead). Avian Flu, on the other hand, has a mortality rate of 60-80%!!

 

[JoeTheJuggler]

Confirmed, but it is widely suspected that far over one million have caught the virus in the states.

The 7000 figure was the cases that needed hospitalization, not the confirmed number of cases. But you're right, they're estimating the number of total cases at about 1 million.

You probably got a long wait. In the UK the healthy expect to get the vaccine next year sometime.

Again, from the CDC:

Q. When is it expected that the novel H1N1 vaccine will be available?

A. The novel H1N1 vaccine is expected to be available in the fall. More specific dates cannot be provided at this time as vaccine availability depends on several factors including manufacturing time and time needed to conduct clinical trials

And

We do not expect that there will be a shortage of novel H1N1 vaccine, but availability and demand can be unpredictable. There is some possibility that initially the vaccine will be available in limited quantities. In this setting, the committee recommended that the following groups receive the vaccine before others: pregnant women, people who live with or care for children younger than 6 months of age, health care and emergency medical services personnel with direct patient contact, children 6 months through 4 years of age, and children 5 through 18 years of age who have chronic medical conditions.

I've heard no news suggesting there will be delays. I hope there's enough for everyone that wants it.

 

[Undesired Walrus]

That fall vaccine, if the US is anything like te UK, will be mostly given to high-risk groups. I also heard the current plan was to only vaccinate around 50% of the states.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8175750.stm

 

[Cainkane1]

How do you know it was swine flu?

How old are you? Were you around during the SF of the mid seventies?

But that doesn't sound all that mild to me.

I'm 62. My aged mother is 86.

 

[PogoPedant]

The latest news from Norway is that roughly nine out of ten cases of H1N1, isn't a case of H1N1. This based on analysis of samples taken in Norway.

We've also gotten to the point where, if you suspect you have the flu, you call your doctor and get seven days of sick-leave without the doctor actually seeing you. This probably means that a lot of common colds and hokey-cold is reported as the flu without any tests or analysis.

 

[banner001]

The latest news from Norway is that roughly nine out of ten cases of H1N1, isn't a case of H1N1. This based on analysis of samples taken in Norway.

We've also gotten to the point where, if you suspect you have the flu, you call your doctor and get seven days of sick-leave without the doctor actually seeing you. This probably means that a lot of common colds and hokey-cold is reported as the flu without any tests or analysis.

same as over here, you ring up NHS direct and they use their £5/hr telepathic skills to diagnose you over the phone...

 

[JoeTheJuggler]

I'm 62. My aged mother is 86.

The swine flu is more virulent in younger people. For older folks, it seems to be less of a problem.

They're not recommending the vaccine for older folks (as they do for the normal flu vaccine).

ETA: That doesn't sound quite the way I meant it. It's not that the vaccine is any risk or danger for older folks--just not such a big deal. On the first round, they want to get the limited supplies to the people more at risk (kids, health care workers, etc.) which is the same as the most recommended group for the regular flu except for seniors.

 

[Dymanic]

We've also gotten to the point where, if you suspect you have the flu, you call your doctor and get seven days of sick-leave without the doctor actually seeing you. This probably means that a lot of common colds and hokey-cold is reported as the flu without any tests or analysis.

So you give the benefit of the doubt, err on the side of caution, and a bunch of people who had some variety of creeping crud other than influenza also don't come in and spread that around. Is the price of that policy really so grevious?