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Posted: 20-10-2009 18:52 Post subject:

The vaccine that is due to be handed out over the next few months is for the current new swine flu strain (Type A H1N1) and the seasonal flu vaccine is for the other more common flu that comes on every winter. Although the govt isn't certain they think that if the swine flu mutates it will still have a similar structure to the one at the moment so the new vaccine will still have some protection against it.

Interesting thing is, in Australia as winter arrived their numbers of swine flu didn't go up as much as they expected. In fact I think they went down. And I have just come across some new research which suggests that the seasonal flu vaccine may provide a little bit of protection against H1N1 after all:

Posted: 20-10-2009 19:49 Post subject:

I'm not worried about swine flu. I've already had it! Wink

Posted: 21-10-2009 20:31 Post subject:

Everyone is on about how cannabioids are helping fight the flu. Its interesting to read not official accounts but what people wrote on forums. Now having done my research purely for selfish reasons [fancy a spliff], I have to say that last friday I had a cannabis brownie and lo and behold on Sunday I was over it, nothing, really well. Then on Monday morning I had a relapse and it came back with a vengeance and is still there. I wonder now if I had kept taking cannabis, could I have avoided feeling ill for so long?
Gut feeling is: yes. So today I'll self medicate and will let you all know what happens maybe we all don't need any expensive government injections after all. Mother nature knows usually best. smokin

Posted: 05-11-2009 00:30 Post subject:

i`m pretty sure i came back from Edinburgh with it, i`m not worried about it. I`m more worried about the "vaccine" they`re trying to force on us!

Posted: 05-11-2009 02:22 Post subject:

Not exactly reassuring. Swine flu in the Ukraine.

http://www.who.int/csr/don/2009_11_03/en/index.html

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Posted: 05-11-2009 23:54 Post subject:

Well, I'm only having doubts because so many health workers are refusing to have it done. They must know something I don't, perhaps.

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Posted: 13-11-2009 16:51 Post subject:

Asked someone in the NHS why there's low uptake amongst nurses etc for regular flu jabs and the suggestion that they may not take the swine flu jab either, and they said that it was mainly about bravado, being hard enough to struggle on without it: "Stuff and nonsense" etc.

Re the jab, I was under the impression that it used the same technology as the seasonal flu jabs, just used a different strain & as such should be as safe.

Posted: 13-11-2009 18:50 Post subject:

Vid at link.

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Posted: 15-11-2009 14:09 Post subject:

I was in our local hospital earlier this week where the audiologist I saw proudly pointed out the badge on her lapel declaring her to be a "flu jab hero". She told me that she had had 2 jabs, one for "swine flu" and the other for "regular flu". These had been done one in each arm.

She seemed very pleased with herself and said that she had had the vacine to prevent her giving her father the flu. Just a thought, if you have been vaccinated is it possible for you to carry the virus and so infect others? By this I mean that you may have live virus on your person, on your clothing or hands for instance. Also how long does it take for a vacine to become effective?

Another thought, are there any checks as to the effectiveness of the vacine by seeing if those vaccinated develop the appropriate antibodies?

Posted: 15-11-2009 19:27 Post subject:

My understanding is that flu vaccine doesn't use live virus.

Posted: 15-11-2009 20:53 Post subject:

I thought that, ttoo, until I got the normal 'flu jab last year...and promptly got the 'flu. That's either one hell of an antigenic response on my part or one of the little buggers was playing possum.