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Everyone to receive jab against swine flu

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sherby · 12/07/2009 09:31

here

will you be having it?

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PuppyMonkey · 12/07/2009 09:34

Sounds very sketchy: "could be introduced"... well yes, it COULD be.

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ihavenosecrets · 12/07/2009 09:34

The year that I received the flu jab I became very ill with flu and had a chest infection which lasted a year and triggered asthma. I am not sure whether I want to risk that again.

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ShowOfHands · 12/07/2009 09:35

If and I stress, if it was made available to all, no I would not have it.

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HecatesTwopenceworth · 12/07/2009 09:36

why not soh?

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saintlydamemrsturnip · 12/07/2009 09:37

I wouldn't either soh.

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noddyholder · 12/07/2009 09:38

I have to have it as am immunosuppressed.it can't come quick enough for me tbh!

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giddykipper · 12/07/2009 09:39

I would, I think.

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HecatesTwopenceworth · 12/07/2009 09:40

Those who wouldn't - why? what have you heard about it?

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ShowOfHands · 12/07/2009 09:41

For many, many reasons hecate. I can go on and on and on but I won't.

For people like noddyholder I think it can't come soon enough but everybody? With a flu that thus far is comparably mild? Don't make me a vaccine, save the money, spend it on treating somebody who needs the help now.

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giddykipper · 12/07/2009 09:43

The point is soh that by autumn it is likely that it will no longer be mild.

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noddyholder · 12/07/2009 09:45

I have had the normal one every year since 1999 and have never had flu.My ds is terrified I get it so i think it would put his mind at rest tbh.There has been no info about the 'hea;thy' person who died yet I am hoping he was very old at least otherwise it is a worry

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HecatesTwopenceworth · 12/07/2009 09:46

But will any immunisation given now be any use against it in autumn, when in all likelihood it will have mutated into a different beast altogether?

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RubberDuck · 12/07/2009 09:47

I would I think (after waiting for a few more people to have it done first, so side effects/risks are known), but then I always get the normal flu vaccination because I'm asthmatic.

I'm not overly worried about swine flu in general, but having had my breathing severely knocked for about 6 months after normal flu, I'll take any protection offered.

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saintlydamemrsturnip · 12/07/2009 09:47

There's no likely that it won't be mild. Mutation is random so it could be milder. Impossible to predict - there is the potential that it could be more serious but that us true of many other viruses as well.

The one absolute essential rule for vaccination in this house (actually there are 2) is that a) the risk from the illness must be high and/ or b) we must be likely to get it. Clearly b) is fulfilled but a) isn't yet.

Will watch with interest but I won't be getting one just because it's being given out.

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giddykipper · 12/07/2009 09:48

I must admit that thought did cross my mind too Hecate. The news report I read suggested it would still work if the flu mutates. I'm no scientist so I'm happy to be lead by those who understand these things.

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ShowOfHands · 12/07/2009 09:49

Exactly hecate. It may mutate and the vaccine may then be useless, it may not mutate, its mutation may not be severe. Who the heck knows?

This isn't actually my reason for not wanting it btw. Was just wondering out loud about the amount of money they would have to invest in this when money isn't being invested in other desperately needed health services.

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saintlydamemrsturnip · 12/07/2009 09:50

Everyone in our house healthy btw - would maybe make a different decision if the kids were asthmatic.

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RubberDuck · 12/07/2009 09:50

Hecates: it may have mutated, but a vaccine would still be likely to offer some protection. They make a "best guess" on the strains for the normal flu vaccination every year and don't always get it spot on, but it still offers protection for similar strains.

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PerfectPrefect · 12/07/2009 09:51

The vaccine should still be effective - as the parts of the virus they make the vaccine too are more genetically stable than other parts....the vaccine should also be polygenic too which means that multiple parst would all have mutate to make it ineffective.

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HecatesTwopenceworth · 12/07/2009 09:55

yes? I am supposed to get the normal flu jab every year because I am asthmatic but I rarely do

All this is good info to have. I bet many people (like me) don't really have a lot of details.

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TotalChaos · 12/07/2009 09:59

I probably will, despite some misgivings, because I work in a hospital (albeit clerical role) but occasionally briefly go up to wards and clinics to get files.

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piscesmoon · 12/07/2009 10:02

No -but I wouldn't have a 'normal' 'flu jab either-even when I get to be elderly. I will go for natural immunity.

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noddyholder · 12/07/2009 10:08

It will still work if it mutates according to my consultant.

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Kayteee · 12/07/2009 10:10

Nope. especially not after watching Torchwood

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TheOtherMaryPoppinsDiets · 12/07/2009 10:23

Kayteee

I'd encourage my teenaged DD to have it as she has asthma - the rest of us though, no.

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