H1N1 Tally So Far
 

Latest tally is that H1N1 flu has so far killed 10,000 people in the US.

Almost all of those killed so far - about 9,000 of the dead - are children and younger adults. In a normal flu year, seasonal flu will kill less than 1,000 children and younger adults.

Very few older people have died from H1N1 flu so far. Seasonal flu normally kills about 34,000 older people a year.

If you go by number of years of future life erased, H1N1 is probably already worse than seasonal flu.

So far, 1 in 6 Americans have been infected with swine flu. Now the seasonal flu period is starting. I don't think we know if H1N1 keeps going strong alonside seasonal flu, fades away for the year, or comes back in another wave later in winter.

None of my family have gotten a H1N1 vaccination. My daughter and son got the flu before the vaccine was available, they probably had H1N1. My wife and I didn't get sick. Even so, I'm planning to get the H1N1 vaccination.

come on everybody, let's do the twist ...
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and as many as 90% (that's right ninety) and at least 30% of those children killed had SEVERE health problems, like cerebral palsy and other neurological disorders. further, even the CDC admits that testing for H1N1 is inaccurate and has mostly been abandoned, favoring the method of just calling it all H1N1.

My baby (17 months) had the first of two shots for the H1N1 vaccine. They said bring her back in a month. That would be the last week of Dec. My wife has been reading some anti vaccine propaganda and does not want to take her for the second half. I think she's nuts. The baby is getting the second shot.

AFP: 10,000 swine flu deaths in US: estimates

are they cooking the numbers?

"The number of hospitalizations was around the same as for an entire year when only seasonal flu is circulating, and the estimated death toll, which is based on a new methodology for calculating fatalities from (A)H1N1 flu that was rolled out last month, was "much higher than in a usual flu season," said Frieden."

I normally don't get vaccines, but I was offered the H1N1 vaccine and had it. No side effects really for me. That was about three weeks ago. Friday, I got hit with the seasonal flu and spent the night puking my guts out, sweating, shivering...

I don't see what the big deal is. If you want to get the vaccine, go for it. If you don't, that's fine to.

mbrouder - Your wife needs to stop reading the anti-vaccine stuff.

She needs to stop reading a lot of stuff. She has a cousin in prison filling her head with end of world, prophecy, jesus b.s. too.

I've had the regular and H1N1 flu shots. I still got the flu 2.5 times this year (the 0.5th time being after the shots). I gave everyone else in my family H1N1 shots this year right before Thanksgiving dinner. As in with the food already on the table. It'll be a new annual tradition. Thanksgiving flu shot and dinner get together. I think our baby girl already had the swine flu a month ago, though.

eeeeeeeeeeeeh.

Sounds like that wife needs to go. See if you can get a refund from the Wife Dealership or at least a trade in on a newer model.

Billions are being made on this "pandemic". Billions. Just sayin'.

Read in the fish wrap that cats can contact H1N1 from humans - that's weird.

H1N1 vaccine tomorrow, assuming they didn't run out

Who is paying for this vaccination? I have not heard of anyone charging. My family all got the H1 free from multiple sources.

$10

I got the shot 3 weeks ago, it's free in Belgium. I'm glad I had it, especially after reading how many people already died in the US.
The shot not only prevents you from getting it (no absolute certainties, I know) but at the same time it prevents you from spreading it further.
Could it be that we have somewhat of a moral responsability to not infect others?
What if you infect sombody and that person dies?
Is it unlikely that a father/mother who refuses to get get vaccinated, infects and maybe kills his/her child?
I'm not pointing the finger. Just offering food for thought.

i'm not taking responsibility for a bug.

but i don't want no flue shot either, i want my own defense mechanism to learn from it.

That's why you get the shot, so your body can learn....

i'de rather have it learn in a real class, then in a cram session...

What? It is a real class, just with an open book policy for the test.

Stijn, I just got over the seasonal flu and spent last Friday night/Saturday morning puking. That was fun.

seasonal flu never brings me down more then 1 day...i don't even get to the puking stage...
last time i got it when i drove back home from holland, and caught it from my mum who had been really sick from it for the entire week.
Came back home in Holland, sunday evening, monday during the day i got the muscle aches, headache, cough.. went home, double downed a double scotch, crashed in the couch, woke up the next day... most of it was gone. but i got to stay home so not to infect the co-workers... Which was a nice bonus.

I don't even disinfect cuts and scrapes... i never even get the slightest infection.
My aunt, ex hospital worker, disinfects everything... she nearly got her finger amputated from some resistant bug.. she caught it from a 1 mm puncture by some steel wire brush...

Nope, you ain't selling the vaccine idea to me...the body needs to be walloped with stuff regulary, so it knows what to do against anything that get's thrown at it, not just what the vaccin taught it to recognize.