Health Buzz: WHO Says H1N1 Threat Not Inflated

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At age 62 and 44yr`s as a const.plumber,the physical duties have become extremly difficult.why,half of the gum flappers out there,could`nt even lift my tool box!

Bob Zera of WI 11:09AM January 27, 2010

I spent 28 days in intensive care, 3 weeks in an induced coma, in December with H1N1. Twice the doctors told my wife I might not make it through the night. While I was there, 6 people were admitted with the virus, all but one in their 40's and 50's. Two people died, the other four survived; but all had liver or kidney damage. I was the only one who left the ICU without permanent damage.
I tested positive for 10 straight days, lost 30 lbs and when I came home I couldn't even get out of a chair.
This disease is killing normally healthy people. I had no health issues before I contracted it. This is the last thing in the world I thought would happen to me. I thought the threat was overblown too, until H1N1 almost killed me.
Get the vaccine!!!

A. Russo of CA 10:41PM January 26, 2010

I just found this video on You Tube that really shows how germs and viruses spread. It is so cool. It's meant for kids but I even learned a lot!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56mq1t1BqfY

Sharon of CA 9:13PM January 26, 2010

see who they work for

k of IL 2:38PM January 26, 2010

The best public health is invisible; the disease you did not get; the accident you didn't have; the disaster that didn't happen.

Sandy of GA 2:35PM January 26, 2010

There have been no double blind placebo controlled trials of vaccination in influenza (it is approved based off the surrogate marker of antibody response to the injection – but no evidence that it does in fact prevent disease). Conversely there are at least three population studies, two in the US and one in Italy that found that influenza death and hospitalization rates either did not decline or in fact increased after mass vaccination was instituted. So to sum it up, in the medical literature there is no direct evidence that flu vaccination works the only evidence available says it does not. And this is seasonal influenza we are talking here not the recent swine flu. The recommendation to vaccinate children for flu was made only as recently as 2007 or 2008 as I recall, they were never vaccinated because healthy children almost never die of flu. This change in vaccine recommendations came quickly on the heals of former president Bush’s veto of a bill which would have outlawed thimerosal from all pediatric vaccines.
Save yourself the needle prick and take some vitamin D – which by the way does have evidence in the medical literature supporting that it prevents influenza.
Paul
http://healthjournalclub.blogspot.com/

Philip of MD 2:11PM January 26, 2010