H1N1, are you vaccinating your children?
Posted By Elaine ~ 22nd October 2009
Yesterday my sweet 9 year old came home from school with a permission form for the H1N1 vaccine.What is a parent to do? I would consider us to be a relatively healthy family. I work from home so I am not bringing the office petri dish of germs home. My hubby works in the bowels of a ship so all he brings home is the stench of diesel oil. The children seem to fare well in the cesspool of germs at school. Really… other than the occasional cold during the winter and maybe one case of the “Barfy” flu as the kids call it we are a relatively healthy bunch.
Today I posted a question to my facebook peeps for an informal survey on the yeah or nay on this issue. It appears that my question about whether to vaccinate or not has started quite a discussion.
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I would like to hear what you have to say on the matter.
After all you never know who can carry the virus. It is not like germs wear name tags. So is there any way to tell if you pick up germs at the market?
Are you vaccinating your child?
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the H1N1 or Swine Flu virus did put our country in disarray for quite sometime, it is good to know that at least it did not cause so many deaths.
My brother got infected with H1N1 or Swine Flu in Mexico. He got a mild fever and luckily he did not die.
If you look at the pandemic of 1977, when H1N1 or Swine Flu re-emerged after a 20 year absence, there is no shift in age-related mortality pattern. The 1977 “pandemic” is, of course, not considered a true pandemic by experts today, for reasons that are not entierely consistent. It certainly was an antigenic shift and not an antigenic drift. As far as I have been able to follow the current events, the most significant factor seems to have been that most people, who were severely affected, were people with other medical conditions.