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Is anyone getting a bunch of - Colleen

Posted: Oct 16, 2009

transcriptions for pts with H1N1? It is making me think twice about getting the vaccine. I am getting a bunch of them, and quite a few with type A influenza as well.

Yes, I have. Most of mine were pregnant women. - MTDaze

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Pretty scary. For the life of me, I can't understand why ANY healthcare worker would refuse to get the H1N1 vaccine, because they're going to be exposed to alot of cases of it this winter.

I would take the vaccine, but it's not available here. - sm

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I don't know if we'll get enough of them in time or not.

h1n1 - too old

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I was told the H1N1 vaccine is according to a certain age group. Have to be under 45 to be able to have it. So I am too old. I just was told that last week by my doctor's nurse, cuz I said "i suppose i have to have that shot, eh" She said you are probably too old (56).

Age limit is for nasal spray, not for the shot. - deb

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As far as I know, anyone too old for the nasal spray can get the injection, but there's not much of it available yet.

I don't think you have to worry about it. Link inside. sm - MT and worn out

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You KNEW it was bound to happen. Every year somebody yells, "The sky is falling, the sky is falling" with some new superbug. The drug companies "rev up" production and then..... You guessed it..."oh well, we're not sure we have enough vaccine in stock." or words to that effect. I'll bet if you could get a look in their warehouses, you would probably find a lot of the vaccine stored away. Why? Only the drug companies know.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33345714/ns/health-kids_and_parenting

Shortage of shots as more kids die of swine flu
CDC: H1N1 virus causing unprecedented number of infections for early fall

updated 3:22 p.m. ET, Fri., Oct . 16, 2009
WASHINGTON - Even as swine flu infections are causing an unprecedented amount of illness for this time of year â�� and a growing number of deaths, particularly among children â�� supplies of vaccine to protect against it will be delayed, government health officials said Friday.

In the past week, 11 more children have died from H1N1 influenza infections, an official from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said, bringing the total to 86 children since April. That's a startling number because in some past winters, the CDC has counted 40 or 50 child deaths for the entire flu season â�� and no one knows how long this swine flu outbreak will last.

"These are very sobering statistics," said Dr. Anne Schuchat, the CDC's director of immunization and respiratory diseases.

At the same time, drug manufacturers have told health officials to expect at least 25 percent less vaccine by the end of the month than anticipated. Instead of the 40 million doses projected by the end of October, only 28 million to 30 million doses may be available, said Schuchat.

"We aren't expecting widespread availability until the end of the month or until November," Schuchat said. "It will be pretty challenging to find vaccine."

She urged people anxious to get immunized to check back with their state and local health departments.

"Keep looking," Schuchat said. Video

Tamiflu scams
Oct. 16: The FDA is cracking down on Web sites selling fake Tamiflu and other H1N1 flu drugs. Dr. Nancy Snyderman talks with msnbc.comâ��s Bob Sullivan about how to tell real medicines from fake ones.
Dr. Nancy

Initial vaccine shipments were only of FluMist, the nasal spray version that can be used by only certain people â�� those ages 2 to 49 who aren't pregnant and have no chronic illnesses such as asthma. But swine flu shots now are shipping, too, accounting for a bit more than half of the vaccine available today, Schuchat said.

Vaccine manufacturers have told CDC that the yield of H1N1 antigen, the substance that produces infection-fighting antibodies, has been lower than expected.

Swine flu is now widespread in 41 states, CDC reported. And overall for the country, deaths from pneumonia and flu-like illnesses have passed what CDC considers an epidemic level. About 6 percent of all doctor visits are for flu-like illnesses, levels not normally seen until later in the fall. Half of the all the child deaths have been in teenagers.

Earlier this week, health officials said that almost half of the hospitalized adult swine flu patients had been healthy people who did not have asthma or any other chronic illnesses before they got sick.

Unpredictable nature
Separately, the World Health Organization said Friday although the H1N1 virus has killed fewer than 5,000 people so far this year worldwide, the influenza remains a cause for concern because of its unpredictable nature.

Most people who catch the H1N1 virus suffer mild symptoms.

Video

Swine flu forcing better prep in ICUs
Oct. 15: With Intensive Care Unit equipment already being used at 95 percent capacity in most hospitals, ICU workers are bracing for a big swine flu wave.
Nightly News

But in contrast to seasonal flu strains which can be serious for elderly people, H1N1 can turn dangerous for some people with existing health conditions or otherwise healthy young adults.

"There is a small subset of cases that do and can progress quite rapidly to severe disease and this is sometimes in the space of less than 24 hours and it then becomes a big, big challenge to save the people," said WHO spokesman Gregory Hartl.

"This disease continues to cause concern because it doesn't act exactly like seasonal influenza and because it doesn't affect the same groups who are affected by seasonal influenza."

Watch this video before you decide to get it. - It was on Insider Edition sm

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last night. The video has the number 9 on it.

http://www.wusa9.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=92345&catid=158

H1N1 - tristen

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I would read this before getting the vaccine.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/german-soldiers-get-additive-free-swine-flu-shot.html

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