It almost has a face.
Posted on 01/14/2018 3:33:47 PM PST by blam
The latest data — for the week ending Jan. 6 — suggest the season may be peaking right now, the CDC’s director, Dr. Brenda Fitzgerald, told reporters Friday. But she warned that many more people will be infected before the season is over.
There’s a difference between an active flu season — when a large number of people get sick — and a severe season, when the numbers of people hospitalized for flu or who die from the infection are unusually high.
It can be hard to tell in real time where a flu season will fall on the severity scale, because sometimes reports of influenza hospitalization and deaths — especially deaths among children — lag.
That said, this year is starting to look like a severe season, and maybe more severe than last year, which was also bad, said Dr. Dan Jernigan, head of CDC’s influenza division.
“There’s lots of flu in lots of places,” he said.
So far, Jernigan said, this year’s season doesn’t appear to be quite as bad as 2014-15.
The influenza A virus H3N2 has caused the lion’s share of the illness in most parts of the country this year.
But recently there’s been an uptick in activity by another influenza A virus, H1N1, Jernigan said, warning that even if the season appears to have peaked, flu viruses will circulate for weeks to come and people should continue to take precautions against getting infected.
Jernigan said that people over the age of 65 are being hospitalized for flu this season more than any other population. Even people age 50 to 64 are being hospitalized in high numbers.
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Strange thing is I’ve had a cough for two months before any of the flu symptoms showed up. And I was tested and diagnosed with the flu last Tuesday.
“The government says our population is immune...”
Your government is full of beans.
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I’ve also just added in a generic cold and flu mixture with 650 of acetaminophen...dextromethorphan HB r 30mg, and Doxylamine succinate 12.5 mg... I developed a fever today which I really haven’t had. It might help with your cough. So sorry about the GI stuff....
It almost has a face.
Well...THAT looks like what must be grabbing and twisting and burning my lungs when I cough....little bugger! And, he’s trying to climb up my throat, too!!!
If you just developed a fever that means you’ve just gotten started. And the doctor told me it’s most contagious when you have a fever. Protect those around you.
It would be interesting to know how many freepers have this crap.
Yes....I was just thinking we should start a Freeper Flu thread....I got nothing else to do...nor do I want to do anything else...
The name of it was "Breathe-Easy" and it contains:
Peppermint essential oils,
Tea tree essential oil,
Basil essential oil,
Rosemary essential oil
and
Eucalyptus essential oil.
It has worked all the way so far. The bad throat conditions did not return.
Also been regularly eating Raw garlic and raw Jalepeno peppers.
And drinking organic, unfiltered, unpasteurized Apple Cider Vinegar.
Fever seems to go up and down...pretty low right now ...100.2
Respectfully, my good FRiend, I do not agree.
If the shot were 10% effective, might that mean that it could, at the least, reduce infectivity some, reduce the severity some, reduce the duration of infection, reduce the mortality and infection-related-effects some?
Worst case, if you get the shot, you just might survive a miserable experience.
Get the shot, my good FRiend.
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Folks, Ignore Big Pharma trolls posting online pimping toxic flu shots/vaccines...the (faux) army is swarming everywhere on progressive and social media engines. Can you guess who is funding the trolls in the billions?
And, why are big pharma manufacturers ‘immune’ from vaccine injury lawsuits when so many horrible deaths (lots of children) have happened? Yes, sadly hush hush money has been paid. (”Vaccine Court has paid $3.7 billion in damages to families”)
http://www.nvic.org/Vaccine-Memorial.aspx
The Flu Shot Truth—
In the New England Journal of Medicine, doctors pointed to “mounting concern” over the record level of flu in Australia, where the vaccine was only 10 % effective against the dominant strain H3N2. The American flu vaccine uses the same composition which (too) is only 10% effective. So, uh, No thanks!
I’m also 66, and I can tell you that this is real punch-in-the-face flu. Very debilitating and hung on for 10 days.
We’ve all had it too. I was running 104 fever on Tuesday. Real kick in the shorts.
Readers should follow the link for the article. “34 percent” is probably the best guess so far. A doctor acquaintance told me the same. “10%” was the estimate for the Australian population.
I used Robitussin DM and it seemed to help. Dextromethorphan is a cough suppressant. Guaifenesin loosens mucus.
One thing I started to do years ago is when a cold starts I using nasal saline. I lie down, tilt my head back and put the saline in. Stay there as long as I can. Then blow my nose. It keeps a lot of the gunk that normally would slide down into my lungs out.
Probably because he/she is aware of this article-(it is a downloading PDF file)
http://www.thinktwice.com/fluvac.pdf
Weird!
They are treating her with anti fungal, anti viral, three different anti biotics and steroids for her breathing plus a whole list of can't pronounce drugs. I think they are trying a shotgun approach since they have no clue what it is.
Now it has hit me and oh my God is it bad, I'll see our regular Dr tomorrow I hope.
After 43 years I'm quite lost without her and worried sick. Still don't know what this crap is.
I am 69 with a low immune system due to several health issues, so this junk scares me. You and your wife have my prayers.
I still swear by homemade chicken soup.
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