i'll take the 5 days of suffering over having to walk backwards in order to walk straight for the rest of my life thank you.

 

That Desiree Jennings thing will turn out to be just a publicity stunt.

She's now making a "miraculous recovery."

This after Neurologists basically said she was faking her dystonia.

Pretty brilliant to get her career jump started.

http://www.huliq.com/8059/88521/nfl-cheerl...u-shot-reaction

 

hurray for strong immune systems!

 

http://www.dump.com/2009/11/03/mortality-o...in-perspective/

 

I got the regular flu shot, but I don't trust the H1N1 yet -- it takes years for vaccines and somehow this happened in, what, a year?

I am legend anyone?

 

H1N1 is just a different strain of the flu. The only difference between the H1N1 vaccine and the regular seasonal flu vaccine is what strain of virus they use. It's the same process they've been using for a LONG time. Nothing new here. Don't buy into the BS scare put out there by people whose only medical training is from Oprah and other uneducated idiots.

 

either way, i'm not a fan of taking medicine.
if the flu kills me, so be it. i'd rather my genes die from the flu then curse my offspring with poor immune system.

i'm glad you guys survived it.

 

****ing knew it!!!


Guys, a vaccine to a virus is simply a denatured form of the virus where the internal material related to pathogenicity has been denatured (radiation, for example) but the capsid proteins remain intact. Your immune system works by recognizing antigen presence (those capsid proteins) and initiating a primary response, followed by a secondary response. Your secondary response is entirely dependent on there being B/T cells with a close enough specificity of their antigen binding receptors (immunoglobulins on B cells, TCR on T cells). If you just so happen to have nothing close to the antigen being presented (very rare as you are making about a billion B cells every day), it may take a while before something recognizes it and you can initiate a response.

Also, your adaptive immune response is the only place in your body where genetic recombination occurs regularly so that the initial receptor that bound the antigen has a chance to become "better" at binding the antigen, so that upon subsequent infection, it takes 2 days for your body to mount a large attack on the invaders, rather than 7-10 days. This is why we have vaccines.

 

Jesus F. Christ. You know that the same thing would have happened to her if she had gotten the actual flu, right?

What do you guys think a vaccine is??!?

 

[QUOTE=ASMspec,Nov 7 2009, 03:07 PM]

The vaccine is available and has been for months now for health care providers.