This the best explanation I have seen.

You should wrote the copy for all those TV medical gurus who come on all the time.

Thank you!

I’m behind on reading, and since mid-May, H1N1 is infecting a large area of the Southern Hemisphere, where it is now winter and therefore flu season. WHO declared a level 6 full-blown pandemic. Older folks seem to have some immunity to the new virus, probably from surviving the 1957 pandemic.

The origin of H1N1 isn’t Mexico or completely from pigs. It is made up of RNA from two swine viruses, a human virus and an unknown avian flu virus. When it infected a Wisconsin teen in 2005 it became a new virus.

See Newsweek article here: http://www.newsweek.com/id/195692

Worrying isn’t what we need to do. This isn’t Ebola, it’s the freakin’ flu. We need to wash our hands, eat properly, take care of ourselves, and get our flu shots when they are available in the fall. If you come down with it, go to the doctor early. The anti-virals really do help you get well faster and keep you from getting as sick.

First symptoms are fatigue and scratchy throat followed in ~12 hours with a high fever (101-104 F). You do not usually get a cough before the fever hits. Flu is not a nasal infection (it is a lung infection) so you should not have nasal symptoms early on. Those may come if you get a secondary viral or bacterial infection a few days after the fever starts.

I speak from personal experience and have had a lot of flu. I have asthma and even with a flu shot I’ve still gotten it. Flu is not similar to a cold (not even a really bad one), so if you don’t have a high fever you don’t have the flu.

Stay well, and remember to get in line for those flu shots!

Sherri
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And a pig is a pig is a pig whether swine or human. We are all part of the same system and all divine …It seems that so many Americans don’t care about other humans but do care about animals, I call that a good start.

Corinne, I love your new look – you just keep getting better all the time. Oh, yes, I forgot to mention that you get more comments on your blog than Deepak Chopra …………… hmmmmmmmmmmm… didn’t you give him his start too?

Like Neal Walsh (cannot stand men with 3 names) also Andrew Harvey and Andrew told me how much you helped and coached him in his beginning. I have it in writing in the note he gave me to give to you last week !!!!

I wonder if your readers know just how many of those personal growth people you interviewed and helped … hundreds… including me.

There have to be literally millions now that have been touched by your intreviews and all those “gurus” that you had on your show when they were new and scared.

Countless.

First, healing thoughts to you as you recover from your operation. You must be grateful that both eyes are now done.

A thought for you to consider.

You are helping. You write thoughtful and provoking comments on this blog. You make people think.

Perhaps you don’t realize – but thousands of people come here and read your words.

You are important. Please keep contributing. We are too old to be Mother Theresa.

Sorry about the tulips. Go buy a bunch in the supermarket and put them in your living room where now at last you can see them!.

We are already to old to die young.

This is all about our children and little grandchildren.

“Maybe our “health care problems” are our OWN responsibility and not the governments. What the hell ever happened to individual responsibility.”