Swine Flu epidemic in San Francisco
A couple of Allvoices Team members have either had Swine flu or their family members are down with the flu. I spoke to my doctor regarding Swine flu or as it is identified as Influenza A, she told me she is seeing 3-4 cases of Swine flu a day.
The symptoms reported by Allvoices Team members are high fever 101 to 104(in case of children), severe body ache, chills and loss of appetite. They are getting treated with Tamiflu.
Also once indentified with Influenza A it takes hospitals and/or doctors a few days to get results to identify if it is swine flu. But the patients get treated with the assumption that it is Swine flu.
Over the weekend, i heard on TV that there are about 1Million cases of Swine flu in the US. The Health department is forecasting worst case scenario that, 90Million Americans may get the flu and close to 2Million deaths.
The flu shot is planned to be out in October. I am going to make sure that my young children and parents get the flu shot this fall.
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By: walidmoursy
Symptoms of swine flu in humans similar to the symptoms of seasonal influenza, such as a sudden rise in temperature, cough and pain in muscles and strain. It seems that this new strain has caused more diarrhea and vomiting, more than
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By: kayla413
how many people have decided to get the swine flu virus? Has there been any siide effects. Have you given them to your children or elderly? Just curious to see those that have received the vaccination.
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By: regret
wow swine flu is going around, you bettttter be careful. it hits hard! get your vacccine today!!
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By: so_whatever
what do you think about swine flu shot?
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1. The Swine Flu "epidemic" was shamefully overblown, with a tiny fraction of deaths the medical community "predicted."
2. Billions of dollars in vaccinations & unnecessary doctor visits poured into the coffers. "Bowling for Dollars" goes on.
3. "Health Care gone wrong" continues to kill & injure as many citizens as would one, loaded-to-the-gills 747, dropping out of the sky every single day of the year.
You want to talk about epidemics? Talk about the 235,000 physicians currently logged into the National Practitioner Data Bank, as either "Dangerous" or "Questionable."
Trust me. You'd really rather have the Flu.
Speaking in platitudes is what a parrot does - a total absence of critical thinking behind the noise. The correct answer is that this new strain of virus has the CAPABILITY of being fatal. So does driving cars, which kills 45,000+ per year. I honestly pity the unthinking citizens among us, who cannot think rationally about such things as "pharmaceutical sales hype." While it is sad indeed that approximately 300 Americans have died from this virus, a logical person will compare that to the 300 people A DAY who die because of in-hospital medical errors. Fretting about the Swine Flu under the current circumstances is like swatting a mosquito while standing on the freeway.
You tell me where real danger is.
Hi there and so glad you asked. While researching an entirely different area of medicine I discovered - to my surprise, anyway - that no other profession in America has a higher number of seriously misbehaving people than physicians. The National Practitioner Data Bank records the fact that - 0f 800,000 doctors - 25% of them have been disciplined for misbehavior. And they acknowledge this number is low, cause medicine is very, very poor at exposing the problem. Rather unbelievable, actually.
So after years of research, I have written a book about the subject, entitled, America's Dumbest Doctors: Ever Wonder About Yours?
I guess I shouldn't be too surprised that so many people are unaware of the situation. Because I've worked in medicine for three decades, and I had no idea how prevalent goofy behavior was either.
I just trusted the doctor and followed the instruction, but I started to miscarry and went into shock and lost a lot of blood, I almost died.
I am so sorry to hear this. After my years of being around either incompetent or uncaring medical people, I just decided I could do more good by speaking out about this truly unnecessary tendancy.
Just last week, we hear about the child psychiatrist criminal case in San Mateo; the doctor sentenced to 7 years in prison in Oakland for taking pictures of his nude patients; a husband/wife doctor team convicted if insurance fraud; the doctor in Monterey convicted of rape; and of course, the ridiculous drug pandering in the Michael Jackson case.
I am almost ashamed to wear a stethoscope.
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