H1N1/swine flu.

I heard if you have flu symptoms it is H1N1 because its the only flu going around now. plus it just like the normal flu to people that don't have medical conditions the would be affected by the virus.

I have had it and it really isn't a big deal. It really is being blown out or proportion - the newspaper went crazy with a front pager after some senior died. I don't really see why it was a surprise; sad yeah but not really front page worthy.

Most people are going to get H1N1 so there's no reason to not carry on with life as usual. Unless you don't wash your hands. Obviously I'm not getting a vaccine to something I've already built an immunity to.

How do you know if you've contracted it?

^The doctor will tell you (after your family panics and takes you to the hospital).

Its just the media unintentionally creating hysteria... The H1-N1 virus is just another adapted strain of the flu virus. omg a few people died from it... people die every day, modern medicine is the reason to thank for people not dieing from common illnesses anymore.
I cant stress this enough.... Those who have died from this virus can be placed in three diffrent groups

#1 Elderly
#2 Small children
#3 those with weakened immune systems or have other major health issues

Another big thing to keep in mind. in the united states (possably in other countrys as well) The means of detecting the h1-n1 strain is only at best 60% accurate(depending on the doctor they might tell you this, they might not some doctors do get kick backs from pharmasutical companys, for selling there wares)

this sounds to me like the medical industry is paying off the media to make a bigger deal over it than it is. Why? because then they make money from people actualy paying for there "Unique/Special" medications... makes perfect sense
The economy is in shambles, so take something minor and make a big deal of it.
preying on the weak or those who lack the facts.

Your friend might have really low resistance. I had it, just felt like normal flu, plus the downside that everybody get the fuck way from me even after I'm fully certified ok (well, I'm sort of treated as a delinquent due to the way I carry myself, like ryuuji in tora dora, so...).

It is way too overblown and its not that bad, really. If you hate being sick, just stay the hell away from sick people.

I've got thejab a week or two ago and so did my mum, i felt fine after the vaccine injection and i've even fel better then before.

The whole things been overblown, its like the SARs virus a few years back or even avian flu, it'll all die down by the end of the year.

I lost interest in it after I realised that I most probably am not going to die from it.

Uhmm... something doesn't fit here. If you get a vaccine (basically a weaker version to strengthen your immune system) while infected it is contra-productive as it just worsens your state.
Now either you have confused it with an anti-virus ooor... you have been scammed.

I've had Swine, And I can say that it wasn't nearly as bad as I expected...

And I'm not even much of a healthy Person! I was off for two weeks and four days though...

Err...i never had swine flu in the first place, sorry that i didnt mentioned that before.

Some people care too much. There is this whole thing in America, and perhaps elsewhere, where people are so worried about coming into contact with germs on the toilet seat that they hoover above the seat, pissing and crapping all over it, thus creating a more biohazardous situation than if they had just sat and shat. But then again, I have had jobs where you clean such horrible restrooms that it would make even the staunchest intelligent design theorist believe that we did indeed evolve from monkeys. Though how far from them is still the question.



When they make a vaccine the manufacturer completely kills the virus, and adds immunity boosters to the shoot. It's sort of a no brainer why exterminatus felt better. Though you could be right, it could always be the placebo effect too.

Waitaminute! I remember seeing in a show in National Geographic or Discovery about Influenza and there was a case where a flu outbreak spread in America during the 70s or 80s and the people went paranoid. The government rushed the medical department for a vaccine and it seemed that the vaccine killed more people than the flu itself.

No way in hell I'm taking an Ahini Vaccine.