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Flu Season Getting Worse, As Illness Has 'Lot More Steam' Than Expected
Fox News ^ | 1-21-2018 | Travis Fedschun

Posted on 01/21/2018 4:27:01 PM PST by blam

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To: Diana in Wisconsin

It wasn’t the flu.
It was fake flu like.
Likely the man was already in poor health. They die first.

Flu vaccine only works 10% of the time.
If you had 10 vaccinations over the years, it only addressed ONE flu virus.


41 posted on 01/21/2018 5:49:46 PM PST by TheNext
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To: blam

And this is why I won’t be traveling the next few weeks...


42 posted on 01/21/2018 5:58:06 PM PST by reed13k
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To: boycott
I was just starting to regret I've never had one. And I have had a couple kinds of flu or winter sickness over the years. Then I remember I nearly died from pneumonia when I was 9, could have started with the flu. But there weren't any shots or anti-virus meds, and I didn't want to tell my mother I was sick because I hated it when she'd get so worried. Penicillin shots weren't working, and I've always believed it was the round-the-clock streptomycin (new drug) shots that saved my life, was hospitalized.

My uncle died from it in the epidemic of 1918.

Now I don't want to go where there a lot of people and seriously thinking about wearing a mask if I have to go to hospital, dr. Have an older one, what could I line it with for a little extra protection, if anything?

Her doctor told her that even if the shot wasn't for the most virulent strain, if you did get another strain, you weren't likely to get as sick.

And my other daughter very sick, was in the ER yesterday, very worried about her. She didn't get the shot either.

43 posted on 01/21/2018 6:15:34 PM PST by Aliska
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To: blam

Cousin just passed yesterday morning from flu. 55


44 posted on 01/21/2018 6:19:07 PM PST by griswold3 (Freedom from nags, cranks, government, do-gooders, control-freaks and idiots is all that we ask for.)
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To: griswold3

Eat healthy, stay fit. That is how you avoid getting sick. Flu shots are non sense. IMHO.


45 posted on 01/21/2018 6:26:39 PM PST by MGunny
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

My little granddaughter got it, then passed it on to daughter and SIL. Her brother didn’t get it. They are OK now, but I stayed away from them for two weeks.


46 posted on 01/21/2018 6:27:46 PM PST by Rusty0604
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To: heights

Influenza is a virus, I guess nobody ever told you that wearing a cloth mask to stop a virus, is like having a chicken wire roof to stop the rain.
Viruses are really VERY SMALL.


47 posted on 01/21/2018 6:28:47 PM PST by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: Chickensoup

That’s to prevent BACTERIAL infection, not VIRAL protection!


48 posted on 01/21/2018 6:31:08 PM PST by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: Terry Mross
We have a very old cemetery close to our home.

The number of headstones engraved with 1918 is chilling. More people died in the 1918 flu pandemic than were killed in WWI.

49 posted on 01/21/2018 6:34:40 PM PST by 2111USMC (Aim Small Miss Small)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

Sounds like a great life.


50 posted on 01/21/2018 6:36:33 PM PST by Rusty0604
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To: Terry Mross

Actually the odds for them to survive at that age were not all that bad, the 1918 flu epidemic killed mostly people between the ages of 18 and 42.
The healthiest, most robust people in society; that’s what scared the hell out of the doctors.


51 posted on 01/21/2018 6:37:36 PM PST by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: Aliska

Seems we’re all kind of on our own this year. No one seems sure of what to do. I sure don’t. I just hope the flu season will come to an end soon.

My grandfather on my mother’s side of the family died of pneumonia in the early 1940s at the age of 33.

I hope your daughter with the flu gets well very soon.


52 posted on 01/21/2018 6:39:40 PM PST by boycott
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To: 5th MEB

The viruses don’t emit in dry form; they ride on droplets of fluid. A mask will catch those.


53 posted on 01/21/2018 6:49:54 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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To: 5th MEB

The primary advantage comes in the mask arresting aerosolized droplets, not the virus itself.


54 posted on 01/21/2018 7:05:00 PM PST by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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To: boycott

Oh my. Just talked to my 88 y.o. mom - putting her on tamiflu tomorrow. She was here when the baby was here. Summer can’t come soon enough for me.


55 posted on 01/21/2018 7:13:51 PM PST by Tuscaloosa Goldfinch ( I would LOVE to have my old "substandard" insurance back. It didn't mean $24K annual out of pocket)
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To: blam

I would like to see the numbers between those who were vaccinated and those who were not. (and who got the flu)

They have it. Show it.


56 posted on 01/21/2018 7:18:03 PM PST by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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To: griswold3

I’m so sorry.

Haven’t seen a reported national death toll but my brother in Dallas said almost 1200 in Texas. I also haven’t seen a why on how the young are dying. CDC has reported 30 kids have died.

The flu in 1918 revved up the immune systems to the point it attacked the patient’s own organ. A cytokine storm. I suspect this is what’s going on this time. It’s treatable if recognized early. Not sure if E.R. docs are thinking that way yet cuz I don’t see it reported much at all. Hope they are.

Had this flu. Started New Years weekend. Not pleasant. GI tract on steroids while being hit by a semi!


57 posted on 01/21/2018 8:01:31 PM PST by lizma2
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To: boycott
Ow wow, 33, so sad.

Thanks about my daughter. Talked to her for a couple minutes. I'm not sure she has the flu but bronchial something or other. Feels really sick, nausea and possibly other things Temp is 100. Going to a dr tomorrow I'm not sure is the best equipped for such things, nurse-practitioner. Not my call.

She said the hospital is making everyone, nurses, doctors, patients visitors, wear masks.

I hope you can stay well and thanks for the kind words.

58 posted on 01/21/2018 8:03:04 PM PST by Aliska
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To: blam

My ole pup isn’t leaving the house til May!


59 posted on 01/21/2018 8:04:27 PM PST by lizma2
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To: Aliska
I'm not sure she has the flu but bronchial something or other. Feels really sick, nausea and possibly other things Temp is 100.

That's sounds like H3N2. Bet she'll be just fine in about 7 to 10 days.

60 posted on 01/21/2018 8:13:10 PM PST by lizma2
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