Am I the only person really worried about the flu?

[Vesayen]

I got my vaccination like a month and a half ago and now were all finding out that it was the wrong type...... if you do get the flu, is it reasonably cureable?

[lightblue]

Yeah, is the short answer, thoguh cured is the wrong word. You'll just have to sick it out as antivirals are rather ineffective against influenza.

Influenza is a nasty bug and will leave you bed ridden for 4-5 days and feeling generally crappy for about 2 weeks, but as long as your immune system is not weak due being very young, very old, having AIDS or immunosuppressive drugs you'll live.

This Wujan strain seems to be mostly killing young kids. They will have never been exposed to Influenza before and as such are probably more susceptible than most of us.

[Vesayen]

I'm not in the best shape but I'm not in awful shape heh.

So if I get sick odds are VERY good I'll feel like @&!# but I"ll live?

[MikeH]

Yes.

[lightblue]

Yeah. It's a nasty disease and you'll like you'll want to die for a few days (high fever, extremely painful joints etc), but use some fever suppressors, maybe some painkillers as well a lot fluids and you'll be fine. The mortality rate is way less than 0.1%, and nearly all of those would fall in the above categories.

I severely doubt it would be anything like the Spanish Flu pandemic after WW1.

NOTE: I am not a medic, i am a (former) virologist, so do follow any medical advice rather than what I say

[Urban Ranger]

How bad is this flu as compared to other annual outbreaks?

[Zkribbler]

Re: Am I the only person really worried about the flu?

Originally posted by Vesayen
I got my vaccination like a month and a half ago and now were all finding out that it was the wrong type...... if you do get the flu, is it reasonably cureable?

This precise strain of flu is not in the cocktail vaccination you got, but there is one that's really close, so you're a lot more immune than you think you are.

Originally posted by Urban Ranger
How bad is this flu as compared to other annual outbreaks?

About the same, maybe a letter less The difference with this strain is (a) this one hit a lot earlier than normal and (b) this one has had a lot of media hype.

Relax.

[Dis]

as I said in the other thread, good health is all in the mind. Some people can beat cancer through will (and presumably good immune cells) power.

I believe I won't get sick, and I won't.

Haven't had even a cold in almost 10 years. *again Diss knocks on wood just in case*

Resistance...

[Gatekeeper]

There's word (hush-hush, mostly) in some quarters of the medical community that the flu shots given this year will only be effective 30 to 50 percent of the time due to the imprecise match with what's going around.

Gatekeeper

[SlowwHand]

Last I heard, 8 people were in Dallas hospitals and a guy at the America Legion Post was temporarily paralyzed, due to the vaccination.
What worries you?

[Boris Godunov]

The Flu usually only kills really old people.

Take care of yourself, Sloww.

[SlowwHand]

And children. Take care of yourself, Boris.

[Boris Godunov]

snap.

[Japher]

I blame the Chickens!

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by Vesayen
I'm not in the best shape but I'm not in awful shape heh.

So if I get sick odds are VERY good I'll feel like @&!# but I"ll live?