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So recently one of my old posts got ressurrected and tossed around :
http://noblepagan.com/wicca-86/sacred_space_your_altar-2776/
It was a... 7 Comments
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Heres what I found on the subject and response below them.
Health Well: Answers About Swine Flu and Children
By By Tara Parker-Pope
Published: September 7, 2009
With flu season approaching, many parents, including myself, are wondering how swine flu is going to affect our households.
An blog entry on this on one of the many blogs that I go to.
Quote:
The H1N1 flu vaccine is being sent out this week and, depending on where you live, the vaccine may already be available for you and your family. Getting the H1N1 flu vaccine is voluntary, but the CDC does recommend that all children (ages 6 months-24 years of age) receive the vaccine.
Relax. H1N1 is not going to be nearly as bad as you may have been led to believe...Unless ...
By Stephen S. Hall
The virus is out there, and has been all summer, circulating at a low level through the five boroughs, turning up in samples sent to the city’s public-health lab, popping up at sleepaway camps, making a winter tour of the Southern Hemisphere, roaring back on college campuses in the South, and knocking on the door of New York City just as the school year began four weeks ago. And in what is known informally as an “epi shop,” on the second floor of a stolid prewar building on Worth Street, the epidemiologists of the city’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene have been on the lookout, every day, for the return of H1N1.
Interesting and I'm torn on this still.
As for me have only gotten it twice in my lifetime so far and haven't had ill affects has of yet. 1st time I felt I needed it because the yr before I was at school. Pretty much everyone got it and wanted to be included at the time. Of course they needed permission from my parent/s or doctor, can't remember which one. Last yr I had to get it because I had bronchitis, a couple of yrs ago. Was on antibiotics and some kind of syrup for it. After that had some GERD (Gastric Reflux) from everything. Was put on medication for that which is working. Believe thats it for now.
By the way my fraternal twin sister had the shot couple of yrs ago and manage to get it after the season was over. Last yr she didn't get it because her experience a couple of yrs ago.
The seasonal flu is a strain of mutating influenza virus that is held in pretty good check by the vaccination each year. The first shot is usually the worst out of your lifetime of shots if you have them every year. Having the vaccination does not mean you will never get the flu, only that your chances of getting it are reduced and if you happen to contract it the symptoms will be less than they would without it.
The swine flu, or H1N1 2009, is a mutated version of the human and swine strains that inter-combined to create this version of the flu. Compared to seasonal flu, the symptoms are less overall than seasonal and you are usually able to get back to a normal life within a day or two compared to seasonal's typical two week time period of down time.
What makes this strain (H1N1 2009) scarey is the fact that it is much more communicable than the seasonal flu. So while the symptoms are actually lessened with this version, it is much easier to contract. If this strain were to intercombine with the seasonal or avian versions, we'd have an extremely deadly and extremely communicable viral infection on our hands.
That is where the scare is coming from.
Whether or not you get immunized is up to you in the long run, but make sure you understand both sides before jumping to a conclusion, but understand that the seasonal flu and the H1N1 2009 vaccinations are two separate things. The seasonal is one injection, the H1N1 2009 is two injections or two nasal sprays.
I don't trust most vaccinations. Happy for the polio n what na vacs....not so keen on getting stuck with a needle to "prevent" or lessen some viral nasty every season.
I only get stuck if I got to. My kids only get stuck if they gots to ( and even then I try and get out of that.....mercury is not something that should be injected into a person.....mercury is used as a base preservative in some vacs....nice huh?)
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