Gheys cause cancer

idsfa: Boobies!

nice boobies, but what do they have to do with H1N1 vaccine.
Are we using carrier boobies for H1N1?

idsfa: Boobies!

Boobies from 12 hours in the future!

Keep your bloody flu shot. The last flu shot I got made me sick for two weeks. I mean nasty bad sick, 2nd worst flu ever sick.

The worst flu I ever got was from my kids when they were in preschool.

Mansebot: People are in danger of dying?
They're unable to deliver the vaccines?

Only one hero can save us now...

Curses! Foiled by anti-bandwidth thieves, my only weakness!

It's about keeping packages warm.
This is not in any way a thread jack.

/Help yourself to a slashie, I have plenty more./

LittleSmitty: Keep your bloody flu shot. The last flu shot I got made me sick for two weeks. I mean nasty bad sick, 2nd worst flu ever sick.

The worst flu I ever got was from my kids when they were in preschool.

I highly doubt a dose of dead virus right into your deltoid muscle gave you the flu. Considering it's, well, IMPOSSIBLE.

I work in a pediatric clinic......and I'm really getting a kick out of these replies........seriously though it has been a nightmare!

Who knew the Flu vaccine was susceptible to common cold?

I thought the mercury kept it from freezing.

As a resident of the frozen white north I have to ask how they didn't account for this freezing issue, also, why isn't there a way to ship vaccine and not let it freeze. It's not like they're shipping lumber, there's not all that much material to keep warm.

/not getting the shot
//already got H1, wouldn't have gotten it anyway

Harry_Seldon: Who knew the Flu vaccine was susceptible to common cold?

It's been uncommonly cold this winter. Due to global warming.

hardinparamedic: LittleSmitty: Keep your bloody flu shot. The last flu shot I got made me sick for two weeks. I mean nasty bad sick, 2nd worst flu ever sick.

The worst flu I ever got was from my kids when they were in preschool.

I highly doubt a dose of dead virus right into your deltoid muscle gave you the flu. Considering it's, well, IMPOSSIBLE.

Well, I got the shot, and two days later had one of the worst cases of flu ever. Either it made me sick, or it didn't farking work. Either way, more for YOU.

I also got sick as hell from the skin tests they do for allergies. Found I was allergic to a lot of stuff. And that crap made me sick as hell.

get real: Actually had the H1N1 flu, yes, it was a nasty week...not bad as I anticipated from all the mediagovernment (my new word)information.

You had it??? This must mean you're farking from beyond the grave.

Minnesota is opening eligibility to anyone next week. SOmething doesn't compute.

It's okay...the next time the H1N1 panic soars the vaccine will be long expired anyway.

/didn't get it, didn't qualify the first round, didn't need it.

LittleSmitty: Well, I got the shot, and two days later had one of the worst cases of flu ever. Either it made me sick, or it didn't farking work. Either way, more for YOU.

While it won't give you the flu, in that you are being injected with flu virus. But it may weaken your immune system a bit, letting something else get past your defenses.

Cool tag for the coldness?

Let's see...


The Media told me to panic about Global Warming(tm).
The Media told me to panic about H1N1.

Now the Media is telling me I'm definitely going to die because I can't get my H1N1 vaccine because it's too cold?

W.T.F?

I got H!N!, in the mail. I then fed it Xanthan Gum 'till it reached human adult size, then I farked the shiat out of it. Needless to say, I'm immune, to H!N!, and morality. I got SICK!

Hmm there's something fishy there... Here in the cold white north there's no problem with vaccines shipping and it's below freezing point since a couple of weeks

It's all about teh "Dunnage"

Shadowknight: LittleSmitty: Well, I got the shot, and two days later had one of the worst cases of flu ever. Either it made me sick, or it didn't farking work. Either way, more for YOU.

While it won't give you the flu, in that you are being injected with flu virus. But it may weaken your immune system a bit, letting something else get past your defenses.

Could well be the case. Either way, no more flu shiats for me

H1N1 VACCINE was recalled BEcause an above average number of people were having "life threating" allergic reactions to it. As in; "lets trak him cause his throat swelled closed" and " oh look , you're dead"
/boss had been an ICU nurse before she came to our company, told all of us she really didn't want us to die so, pass on the shot
// ER said was "high probabliity" I had it when came in chilling,crying,hurting, and had spiked A 103.7 temp in 5 hours from not being sick
///also had strep so bad was choking while trying to swallow jello, the percocet they gave my did to NOTHING stop the sore throat pain,
//// god that week sucked,
// Slashies X5 cause I can

I got the H1N1 shot. My doctor acted casual about it, even though I know people who are freaking out about not getting it yet. By casual, I mean: "no big deal; we have zillions of doses here"

Oh. I didn't want it, but I relented under his...coaxing. I never get sick, so shouldn't someone ELSE get the shot? Someone who needs it? Or a psycho person?

You may be wondering at this point why I was at the doctor's office to begin with. A physical. Why? To make sure he hasn't missed anything. I'll donate myself to science when I die at 144 so you all can study my perfection. :) Oh. Or rather your great-grandchildren.

Did I mention I'm a narcissist? I, I, I, I.

Boobies.

Shadowknight: LittleSmitty: Well, I got the shot, and two days later had one of the worst cases of flu ever. Either it made me sick, or it didn't farking work. Either way, more for YOU.

While it won't give you the flu, in that you are being injected with flu virus. But it may weaken your immune system a bit, letting something else get past your defenses.

Or its possible that he got a virus that the flu shot doesn't cover. After all, there are multiple strands of the flu. The current flu vaccine is a mix of some of the more common flu viruses but the rarer strains are often left out. And then there are strains that have yet to be discovered, or have mutated to be immune to antibodies, forcing the immune system to start the immunization process from the beginning.

get real: Actually had the H1N1 flu, yes, it was a nasty week...not bad as I anticipated from all the mediagovernment (my new word)information.

I had it and was miserable for a week, but it was just the damn flu. After all the fear-mongering I expected a little more drama than laying on the couch for a few days drinking gatorade.

alufiend: H1N1 VACCINE was recalled BEcause an above average number of people were having "life threating" allergic reactions to it. As in; "lets trak him cause his throat swelled closed" and " oh look , you're dead"
/boss had been an ICU nurse before she came to our company, told all of us she really didn't want us to die so, pass on the shot
// ER said was "high probabliity" I had it when came in chilling,crying,hurting, and had spiked A 103.7 temp in 5 hours from not being sick
///also had strep so bad was choking while trying to swallow jello, the percocet they gave my did to NOTHING stop the sore throat pain,
//// god that week sucked,
// Slashies X5 cause I can

Um. No, that's not true - despite what Generation Rescue wants you to think. The only batch that caused an "extraordinarily high number of allergic reactions" was a batch that was released in Canada that had been contaminated by bacterial growth. That batch was recalled.

/got his jab the moment it was available.
//Has seen three patients in ICU die from H1n1, and two emergent c-sections performed at ICU bedside because of them

Sqrxz: I got the H1N1 shot. My doctor acted casual about it, even though I know people who are freaking out about not getting it yet. By casual, I mean: "no big deal; we have zillions of doses here"

Oh. I didn't want it, but I relented under his...coaxing. I never get sick, so shouldn't someone ELSE get the shot? Someone who needs it? Or a psycho person?

You may be wondering at this point why I was at the doctor's office to begin with. A physical. Why? To make sure he hasn't missed anything. I'll donate myself to science when I die at 144 so you all can study my perfection. :) Oh. Or rather your great-grandchildren.

Did I mention I'm a narcissist? I, I, I, I.

Boobies.

This exact thing happened to me this morning. So I guess I am really getting a kick.

/but my arm does kinda hurt
//And my doctor is a hot girl not a guy.

FTA: because vaccines go so many places, they aren't shipped in one big truck.

What they need is a series of tubes. Pneumoniatic tubes.

Molavian: I had it and was miserable for a week, but it was just the damn flu. After all the fear-mongering I expected a little more drama than laying on the couch for a few days drinking gatorade.


I dunno, that's pretty impressive for a virus, most of them don't even have a digestive tract nor have a taste for gatorade.

Good thing it just visited and didn't decide to infect you.

No joke, In a major hospital yesterday and they were making announcements that H1N1 shots were still available in room blah blah blah for staff members. Two doctors were walking by, looked at each other and laughed. It's A trap!!

/Already had the stupid H1N1
//cough

I'm still eating bacon three times a week. No fever yet, not even a headache.

lajimi: I'll bet all the farking politicians and their families all got the H1N1 vaccine.

/Got the H1N1 Thanksgiving week
//It sucks

Who freakin' cares? The swine flu is weaker than the regular flu.

LittleSmitty

I also got sick as hell from the skin tests they do for allergies. Found I was allergic to a lot of stuff. And that crap made me sick as hell.

Just kill yourself then.

LittleSmitty: hardinparamedic: LittleSmitty: Keep your bloody flu shot. The last flu shot I got made me sick for two weeks. I mean nasty bad sick, 2nd worst flu ever sick.

The worst flu I ever got was from my kids when they were in preschool.

I highly doubt a dose of dead virus right into your deltoid muscle gave you the flu. Considering it's, well, IMPOSSIBLE.

Well, I got the shot, and two days later had one of the worst cases of flu ever. Either it made me sick, or it didn't farking work. Either way, more for YOU.

I also got sick as hell from the skin tests they do for allergies. Found I was allergic to a lot of stuff. And that crap made me sick as hell.

It takes a week or two for your body to build an immunity to the flu after getting the shot. If you got sick two days later with the flu, you already had gotten the live virus in your system some other way before getting the shot and that's what had affected you. This can actually happen. What can't happen is getting the flu from the flu shot because the flu shot is already a dead virus. You can get some slight fever/pains for a day or so if your body decides to go all apeshiat on the dead virus, but that's it.

Moreover, was it the actual flu, or was it the "stomach flu?" The stomach flu isn't actually the flu at all.

What I don't get is I live in North Dakota, we've had highs barely reaching 0 for the past week and they opened up this week to pretty much everyone and our local health district is getting supply fairly regularly.

One day a few weeks ago they did have to throw some shipment out because it got frozen. Maybe we learned back then that it needs to be kept warm, but no one else did??

I had written this up for a swine flu headline that showed up yesterday, only to have it vanish into TF-land while I was writing the comment. I'm just gonna leave this here, because I hate seeing people chatter on about swine flu when they don't know much about it:

As a microbiology and immunology graduate student, I'm not getting a kick out of these replies.

H1N1 (aka "swine flu") is not the deadliest thing. It's actually been a somewhat common serotype of the seasonal flu every so often. Because flu strains can mix and match their genes between human strains and other animal strains, we become cautious when new rearrangements of the genes show up in human infections; in the past, these new rearrangements have led to outbreaks. This H1N1 is a new rearrangement, and that's a part of the caution.

However, that isn't the determinative part of the morbidity associated with the flu. There's a mutant strain of this H1N1 floating around out there that is the culprit behind the deaths. Most hospitals won't bother serotyping unless you get fairly sick; even then, just because you have H1N1 doesn't mean you have the deadly strain. The problem is that discovery requires sequencing, and there's no resources for serotyping and sequencing the bugs of everyone who shows up at a hospital with flu-like symptoms.

Yes, this mutant H1N1 is bad. In the animal models, it causes far more pathology than the seasonal H1N1; more death, more lung damage.

So why aren't more people dying? A good question, and I can't really answer it. The animal models show that the mutant H1N1 is just as transmissible, but the science behind animal models and flu transmission is still being developed, so that data is taken with a grain of salt. Additionally, since some animals don't develop the advanced pathology from the mutant H1N1, it's difficult to say why the virus is so harmful. There might be individual genetic differences involved in the response, but it hasn't been identified what that might be yet (AFAIK).

So, take that as you want. The only practical thing I can add is that you shouldn't panic if you get sick, and you should go to the hospital if you get really sick. But for crying out loud, people, don't try to pretend like this isn't a big deal just because you think you had the flu but didn't die. This has the potential to be quite harmful.

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