as a result of Swine Flu to limit my DS explosure to his aunty.

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She is a flight attendant for Virgin, flying all over the USA and carribean???

hmmmm, a bit 'previous' IMO - but I can understand why you feel that way. How does his aunty feel?

limit? surely it's all or nothing? If you think he's at risk (I doubt he is btw!) then you can't 'limit'..like once a week/month or only for an hour etc... you would have to keep him away totally.

Or get her to wear protective gear.

Or let her wave at him through the window.

And you'd have to stay away from her too, in case you passed it on. And you'd have to stay away from everyone she'd been in contact with - parents? mutual friends? shops she's been in?

What do you mean by 'limit'? What do you have in mind?

Your right its all or nothing.....I put limit to sound less dramatic!

She is a bit worried about flying but has to go to work. I disn't say anything to her about DS as she was a bit moody today......!

IMHO YANBU - it's a risk I wouldn't take until more is known. I'm not surprised she was moody, I would be too if I had to do what she has to do.

Thanks everyone. Its a difficult one as so little is known at the moment.

Well it's been on the news that someone in our borough is in hospital with it, and who knows who they have been in contact with etc etc.

Personally I wouldn't worry too much.

Also little ones don't seem to be in the most at risk group so far do they?

The baby that died in the US was Mexican and had an 'underlying health problem'

you had better not leave the house at all then

cos Gawd knows who you could come into contact with....

YABU.

I am REALLY hoping they close schools......I'll get some days off

So far the deaths seem mainly to be in the 20-40 age range from what I have heard, which is similar in that respect to the spanish flu in the early 20th century.

IMO if it's going to spread, it's going to spread, and most of us will be exposed one way or another.

Or it won't really spread, in which case nothing too much to worry about.

People go on holiday and business trips, expecially to the US, all the time, you could be in contact with people on the high street, the bus, the library who have been travelling around.

I really wouldn't worry.

plus we have about a trillion doses of that flu drug in a warehouse somehwhere which bears a remarkable resemblance to the end scene in raiders of the lost ark with all the crates

Well, as this is probabaly going to be a long-drawn out affair lasting for many many months, are you prepared to limit it for perhaps a year?

YANBU. I'd not risk it until we know how serious it could get.

Yes, my sister is rather annoying so a year is fine

Would the fly jab protect you in anyway? Could our LO's have that as some protection?

soorry 'flu jab'

I wouldnt, life's too short but then I ate meat during the original mad cow affair and travelled to the Far East just after SARS so am probably not right person to ask(and am off to an international trade fair next week in China)!

YABU unless your child is in some way immuno-supressed or has an underlying medical condition.

Probably actually best to catch it now and be resistant to later forms which might or could mutate and/or be more virulent, anyhow.

yabu.

You could be passing people that have been in contact with people with the virus every day of your life and you have no way of knowing.

And as expat says, better to catch it now before it becomes stronger...

expat I could be wrong but with these ones that affect the young fit and healthy, i think what kills them is their own immune response? That is what I read anyway.

Not sure how that would tie in with a person who was immunosuppressed but maybe they would actually be better off than someone in rude health?

Just a thought I'm certainly no expert on this stuff.

Better off with this particular virus, obviously, not in general.

I think that the "death by immune response" is certainly one theory about the highest mortality being in the 20-40 age range, rather than being most dangerous to infants and teh ill/elderly like the usual flus we see.

If it works the same way as the 1918 Spanish flu, then yes, stronger immune systems suffer more, it killed via a "cytokine storm" where the immune system goes overboard and kills you.

But nearly all the deaths in Mexico have been from pneumonia, which is a completely different response.

I'd have to go with YABU, but whatever makes you more comfortable, wouldn't condemn you for it.

Thanks Jay I was wondering if my logic was a bit wonky...

I suppose there haven't been anough cases yet to really know what it's all about.

Bella a person who is immuno-supressed or compromised - say, from AIDS, or chemo therapy/cancer, on anti-rejection drugs - or has an underlying medical condition is always going to be at a disadvantage when it comes to a virus no matter which way it can kill the host, e.g. cytokine storm, pneumonia, high fever, etc.

OK fair enough expat.

Just seeing if my brain was thinking right. Unfortunately it's all rather complicated and I doubt I will ever get to grips with all the different variables.

Guess that's what our friends at CDSC are there for!