As in if I get the H1N1 vaccine will I also need the regular flu vaccine to prevent against the seasonal flu.
Thanks!

Just wondering if you thought the flu vaccine would do this? I know they are different strains, but thought maybe if having a little antibodies of 1 might lessen the severity of the other.

Your thoughts?

I was just wondering, because some vaccines are too strong.
Usually when they are they put it on a butt cheek (ouch)
Other times it will be on an arm or leg.
Do you guys think it’s strong or the same as a regular Flu vaccine?

Do NOT worry about this outbreak until it is absolutely necessary. I cannot believe how many people are panic stricken already. Let me give you some information about flu that may help you get through this.

Here are some facts about the virus and flu viruses in general:

* The virus is an influenza A virus, carrying the designation H1N1.

* It is genetically different from the fully human H1N1 seasonal influenza virus that has been circulating globally for the past few years. The new flu virus contains DNA typical to avian, swine and human viruses, including elements from European and Asian swine viruses.

* Flu viruses mutate constantly, which is why the flu vaccine is changed every year, and they can also swap DNA in a process called re-assortment. Most animals can get flu but viruses rarely pass from one species to another.

* From December 2005 through February 2009, 12 cases of human infection with swine influenza were confirmed, all but one among people who had contact with pigs. There was no evidence of human-to-human transmission.

* Symptoms of swine flu in people are similar to those of seasonal influenza — sudden onset of fever, coughing, muscle aches and extreme tiredness. Swine flu appears to cause more diarrhea and vomiting than normal flu.

* People rarely catch avian flus. Notable exceptions include the H1N1 strain that caused the 1918 pandemic and H5N1 bird flu, which has killed 257 out of 421 infected in 15 countries since 2003, according to the World Health Organization.

* Seasonal flu kills between 250,000 and 500,000 people globally in an average year.

* When a new strain of flu starts infecting people, and when it acquires the ability to pass from person to person, it can spark a pandemic. The last pandemic was in 1968 and killed about a million people.

* In 1976 a new strain of swine flu started infecting people and worried U.S. health officials started widespread vaccination. More than 40 million people were vaccinated. But several cases of Guillain-Barre syndrome, a severe and sometime fatal condition that can be linked to come vaccines, caused the U.S. government to stop the program. The incident led to widespread distrust of vaccines in general.

Do you think this information will help some of you calm down and not be as anxious? Education is the best way to fight this disease right now.

Here are some facts about the virus and flu viruses in general:

* The virus is an influenza A virus, carrying the designation H1N1.

* It is genetically different from the fully human H1N1 seasonal influenza virus that has been circulating globally for the past few years. The new flu virus contains DNA typical to avian, swine and human viruses, including elements from European and Asian swine viruses.

* Flu viruses mutate constantly, which is why the flu vaccine is changed every year, and they can also swap DNA in a process called re-assortment. Most animals can get flu but viruses rarely pass from one species to another.

* From December 2005 through February 2009, 12 cases of human infection with swine influenza were confirmed, all but one among people who had contact with pigs. There was no evidence of human-to-human transmission.

* Symptoms of swine flu in people are similar to those of seasonal influenza — sudden onset of fever, coughing, muscle aches and extreme tiredness. Swine flu appears to cause more diarrhea and vomiting than normal flu.

* People rarely catch avian flus. Notable exceptions include the H1N1 strain that caused the 1918 pandemic and H5N1 bird flu, which has killed 257 out of 421 infected in 15 countries since 2003, according to the World Health Organization.

* Seasonal flu kills between 250,000 and 500,000 people globally in an average year.

* When a new strain of flu starts infecting people, and when it acquires the ability to pass from person to person, it can spark a pandemic. The last pandemic was in 1968 and killed about a million people.

* In 1976 a new strain of swine flu started infecting people and worried U.S. health officials started widespread vaccination. More than 40 million people were vaccinated. But several cases of Guillain-Barre syndrome, a severe and sometime fatal condition that can be linked to come vaccines, caused the U.S. government to stop the program. The incident led to widespread distrust of vaccines in general.

Do you think this information will help people to overcome the panic they feel? Why? Why not?
I educate about these diseases for a living. YEP–copy and paste everywhere I can. Congrats on the new baby…..be sure to let me know and we can discuss immunizations. I can’t help it—I am programmed that way.

I have never gotten a flu vaccine…and in general am opposed to anything that is not medically necessary. I plan on getting pregnant sometime this late winter, and want to know thoughts on whether I should get a flu vaccine now, or wait to see if I actually get pregnant before getting the vaccine. Additionally, any thoughts on whether to get a thimerosol free vaccine?

Kenshin Himura:
Why do you need a new flu vaccination each year if the virus is not evolving?
Shouldn’t a single shot at birth be sufficient?
Evolution is the change in DNA from one generation to the next <PERIOD>. Evolution is constant. It effects ALL life. There is NO DOUBT in any scientific field that life is and has been evolving.
The only contention may be exactly what the lineage is for each species. I.e. Human Evolution may be sketchy, but it did occur.
Reference thid Q:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Ahr2ArGareSF81DDSYj_9Lbsy6IX?qid=20070615190856AAnvGl6&show=7#profile-info-5e171558491842a408b82affea576b29aa

My point is this: If evolution is the survival of the fittest (please don’t tell me this pillar of evolution has now changed), why on earth would an evolutionist consider he is evolutionally defective by submitting to a flu vaccine?
or for that matter any type of vaccination?
Is this not tantamount to an admission in doubt of evolutionary laws?
By default, the teaching of evolution is that only the fittest lifeforms survive, so why is it that people feel regrets if those that have defects suffer and die?
Is not this just evolution in action?
So in that line of reasoning, why do we have hospitals? Really would not it be cheaper and less a burden on society if we turned the evolutionally defectives out on the street?
BY the laws of survival of the fittest, why should you feel sorry for them?
Is it not their fault they are dying?
My whole point is that, a medical system with healthcare hospitals and soctors and such is contray to the concept of evolution.
If the person is weak, gets sick or has a terminal illness, why is it that you desire to cure them?
Evolutionally speaking, they are naturally being sellected to die.
So what would motivate you to interfere with nature?

She is in a health occupation class and was told today that she must receive the vaccine in order to do her clinical training at a hospital. She is 17 years old and a senior in high school.
She has had the seasonal flu vaccine. I am concerned with h1n1 because it is so new and in my opinion, has not been thouroughly tested. There is no way to know the long term effects, until it is too late.

AMERICAN FREE PRESS

Two french biochemical students, Laurent Bonomo & Gabriel Ferez were murdered by Israeli Mossad British intelligence assassination teams in June. The two researchers discovered that the H-7 flu vaccine which is designed to neutralize and stop the H5N1 avian flu virus, had been spliced using DNA to actually create a vaccine and illness producing virus at the same time. They also dicovered links to U.S, British and Israeli labs associated with Mossad agent Phillip Zackerie.
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I know like influenza there are mutations that occur in the virus’ DNA so a vaccine would only be helpful for one strand of the virus but there is still an anual flu vaccine…