Comments on: When Pigs Go Bad

By: Zach

Zach — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 01:14:47 +0000

It’s about a year later after the H1N1 outbreak, and there are an extremely low number of reports of the virus. Personally, I have not seen the media talk about this virus for months. Even with the majority of people getting the vaccination for the virus, there have been no deaths from the disease in recent memory. Even though the H1N1 virus is less severe than the regular flu virus, the young and old still need to get vaccinated, just in case. The following is a link to an article explaining why the disease has declined over time.

Link: http://www.foxnews.com/health/2010/10/18/happened-hn/

By: Shatira

Shatira — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 00:23:46 +0000

This was a very interesting article. My mom thought that me getting the H1N1 shot would just make me sick. I guess i’ll have my mom take me to go get the shot even though i really hate needles.:(

By: Bryan Ramirez

Bryan Ramirez — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 16:52:10 +0000

I hate getting shots they hurt. I guess a lot of people are going to get shoots though because they don’t want to get sick. This virus sucks but I guess we have to deal with it.

By: CHRISTIAN

CHRISTIAN — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:54:10 +0000

justin is right about the media overplaying the swine flu endemic, and geoffrey, the hong kong study information about peoople being afraid receive the vaccine was very interesting. i researched the vaccine process and found that when they expose your body to the h1n1 your body can either have a posotive or negative effect on your body. it can either make you really sick or make you prone to the flu. there is a higher chance of the vaccine working but there is still a chance of it making you ill.
http://www.cdc.gov/H1N1flu/vaccination/statelocal/centralized_distribution_qa.htm

By: Guy

Guy — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:51:21 +0000

That was a very informative post Vincent. I learned what age range most H1N1 cases were found in. I was surprised to learn that least cases of H1N1 were found in people who are ages 65 and older. I thought they had the most because they are very vulnerable to illnesses. When I saw how far away the cases those were in ages 0-17 to 65 and older the deaths were nearly the same. I learned that you should treat H1N1 like any other flue. Also they now have vaccinations available at your local doctor’s office. http://www.cdc.gov/H1N1flu/qa.htm

By: Geoffrey

Geoffrey — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:24:42 +0000

There are also other reasons for the possibility for the spread of swine flu. One more would be the fact that some people refuse to take it based on the false fear of the disease. A recent study done in Hong Kong states that 45% of its citizens would accept the vaccine if distributed for free. If the vaccine was not free, the figure drops to 15%; without sufficient evidence of the vaccine’s safety and efficiency the figure drops even loser to 5%. This reflects the general disposition among the public about this vaccine. Because certain people refuse to take the vaccine they are at an increased risk of contracting the disease, because of this H1N1 could lay dormant and then have another sudden outbreak.

I got this information at:
http://missbakersbiologyclasswiki.wikispaces.com/Geoffrey

By: Lionel

Lionel — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 04:07:43 +0000

Vincent this is a good post with a very relavent topic. The swine flu effects many people today in America. As Adam said there is a vaccine for the H1N1 virus. The vaccine has serious side effects. This website answers questions such as, “is the H1N1 vaccine safe?” “Is the H1N1 vaccine too new to trust?” and “Does the H1N1 vaccine contain thimerosal”. This website shows the truth about the H1n1 vaccines and how safe they are.
http://www.webmd.com/cold-and-flu/features/is-the-h1n1-swine-flu-vaccine-safe

By: Justin

Justin — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 01:21:38 +0000

Great post Vincent! I agree that the media did overplay the so called swine flu endemic. Also I would like the add the fact that many people refused to take the swine flu vaccine due to rumors that you would get the swine flu from it and you would only get worse. Although there is some truth in that you would get swine flu from the vaccine but the amount is so little you only contract minute side effects such as a slight fever and soreness of the arm. The vaccine works because once the vaccine enters the body your brain signals to the rest of the body to make more cells to stop the virus. As of today there has been no reported deaths due to the swine flu vaccine.
http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vac-gen/side-effects.htm

By: Vincent

Vincent — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:22:15 +0000

The H1N1 vaccine is an important step in staying heatlthy and not obtaining the swine flu. This vaccine does not protect against the seasonal influenza, one should acquire the seasonal flu vaccine. However the U.S. food and drug administration, FDA, is trying to combine the two for the next flu season. The committee that advised this to the vaccine makers was the vaccines and related biological products advisory committee. The World Health Organization has also advised vaccine makers to do this.

http://flu.gov/news/blogs/blog20100222.html

By: Geoffrey

Geoffrey — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:29:51 +0000

I agree that Swine flu can continue to infect the population and I also believe that we need to be improving the methods we use to treat swine flu after it has infected a host. This is because of the growing fear that a strain of the H1N1 virus is emerging that could be resistant to Tamiflu, a common drug used to treat flu symptoms. If this strain of flu does in fact emerge the world could have a huge problem on its hands.
I got this information at:
http://www.webmd.com/cold-and-flu/news/20090707/tamiflu-resistant-swine-flu-in-us