[Nfbf-l] OT: The Swine Flu vaccination

[Sherri]

Very interesting article. Thanks for passing it on.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marion & Martin" <swampfox1833 at verizon.net>
To: "NFBF List" <nfbf-l at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, November 21, 2009 11:09 PM
Subject: [Nfbf-l] OT: The Swine Flu vaccination


> Dear All,
>    I know this is off-topic, but the H1N1 virus is a serious threat to 
> everyone! My future brother-in-law (Mary Lou and Corey are getting married 
> on November 28), who many of you met at an NFBF convention, is a physician 
> and sent me this message, encouraging me to send it on to those I care 
> about! Here it is for you!
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> Peace!
> Marion Gwizdala
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> I've done some reading, and there was a recent great set of articles in 
> New England Journal of Med about the H1N1.  Also I have heard some 
> patients say "I'm not going to take any government vaccination".  Here are 
> some sobering facts, based on the first six months of the outbreak in the 
> US plus the experience of the outbreak in New Zealand and Australia.
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> 1.       About one in 80 to 150 people who get this flu die.
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> 2.       If you get hospitalized, 25 % go to the ICU, and of those 20% 
> die.
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> 3.       The average age of those that die is 20 to 35, not the very young 
> and very old as usually occurs with other flus. Older patients have caught 
> a similar virus years ago and have some protection, plus some of us were 
> vaccinated against swine flu in the 70's.
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> 4.       People at highest risk for death are pregnant women, obese and 
> very obese people, and then those with chronic illnesses.
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> 5.       30 % of those who die had no underlying health problems.
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> 6.       The vaccine lowers the risk of serious illness and death by 80%, 
> and immunity develops after about 8 days.
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> 7.       We think this flu epidemic will get much worse as winter arrives, 
> unless we can get large numbers of people vaccinated with the H1N1 
> vaccine.  Fortunately prior vaccination with the regular flu vaccine 
> offers some partial protection.
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> 8.       I have already lost two patients from this, one was a healthy 
> obese male in his 20s, and the other was a fifty year old woman with 
> rheumatoid arthritis.
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> So, please take the H1N1 vaccine as soon as you can, and stay away from 
> sick people until you get it.
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> Feel free to forward this note to anyone you care about.
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> Love, Corey/DAD
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