Would you get the vaccine?

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Would you get the vaccine if/when they develop one?

Specializes in OR.

No, thank you I will pass to much hype over this flu pandemic.

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Specializes in Psych, Med/Surg, LTC.
Doubtful.

I'm never among the first to line up for any new vaccine or drug.

I'll leave the guinea pig role to someone else.

Me, too.

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Specializes in Med-Surg, Home Health, LTC.

I have never gotten a flu vaccination.

I came across this website. I've heard reference to these things before, makes one think.

http://www.vaclib.org/basic/fluindex.htm

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Specializes in LTC.

No. I had a flu shot in 1998 and still got sick. I haven't gotten the flu since.

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No. I had a flu shot in 1998 and still got sick. I haven't gotten the flu since.

Yeah- regardless of the point that "you can't catch the flu from the vaccine" I ALWAYS have gotten a flu after I get a vaccine, but NEVER get one (so far) when I don't. Odd coincidence- and not saying necessarily that it's FROM the vaccine- but it's enough of a coincidence that I stopped getting the vaccines- mainly because I can't afford to be laid out for a month recovering from sickness every time. (It takes me FOREVER to shake it- I end up with sinus infection after sinus infection after I get sick).

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Specializes in tele, oncology.

It would depend on what the numbers look like. I work with oncology patients though, many of them hospitalized for neutropenia/pancytopenia, so if it's still alive and kicking I probably will. I also have a kiddo with asthma, so I'd hate to bring it home to him. It'd be a tough call to make as to whether or not to get him vaccinated though, I'd probably defer to his doc's opinion on the subject.

I've never had a problem with the seasonal flu shot, and neither have my kidlets, so that's not a worry for me.

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Specializes in CVICU.

Yes, I would get it, and I will likely be among the first to get it due to my participation in the Biocontainment Unit.

I just found out that a patient I've had several times this past month is influenza B positive, so they may be giving me a script for Tamiflu. My last exposure was about 36 hours ago, so hopefully I won't get anything. I did have my flu shot (as I do every year)... If they decide to give me Tamiflu, I'm considering saving the script if I don't develop symptoms because I will be traveling to Argentina in June... you never know when you might actually need it!

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Yes, I would get it, and I will likely be among the first to get it due to my participation in the Biocontainment Unit.

I just found out that a patient I've had several times this past month is influenza B positive, so they may be giving me a script for Tamiflu. My last exposure was about 36 hours ago, so hopefully I won't get anything. I did have my flu shot (as I do every year)... If they decide to give me Tamiflu, I'm considering saving the script if I don't develop symptoms because I will be traveling to Argentina in June... you never know when you might actually need it!

Yes, it will be still be flu season in Argentina, and this new virus is already present in the southern hemsphere.

Another concern would be that if the seasonal flu in Argentina this season is the other H1N1, it is 98% Tamiflu resistant. Possibly there will be people co-infected with both types, and at some point, the new Type A, H1N1 may develop Tamiflu resistance as well. There is nothing that we can do about it though. We need a vaccine.

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Why not, I have gotten every other flu vaccine that was offered. I would certainly avail myself of this one.

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India Announces Plan To Produce H1N1 Vaccine

http://afludiary.blogspot.com/2009/05/india-announces-plan-to-produce-h1n1.html

I know that there is good cause for concern with regard to being part of the first group to receive a new vaccine. We, as HCW will be part of that first group, I don't doubt if this virus does become more virulent. That is still a big if right now, but we may not have much choice if we are going to be working. Some of us must work, and we need to lower our risk of infection because this virus is way more transmissible than seasonal flu.

The Director General of the WHO, Dr. Margaret Chan has been warming us up to the idea that we are going to be needing a vaccine. But, no definitive decision to proceed has been announced as of yet. I strongly suspect that they will proceed, however. They do not want another repeat of the kind of problems that they had with the last swine flu vaccine, therefore they are going to use an abundance of caution, so she says.

Two years ago the World Health Organization, along with the governments of the United States and Japan, gave grants to six developing nations to help them build their own vaccine manufacturing infrastructure.

India, Brazil, Indonesia, Mexico, Thailand, and Vietnam each received up to 2.5 million dollars, and technological assistance. Since then other grants and assistance have been provided.

While it was not expected that India would have their manufacturing capability fully online until next year, the Serum Institute of India (SII) in Pune believes they can be ready to go into production this summer.

Today, India became the first nation to officially announce their plan to go ahead with the development, and manufacture, of an H1N1 vaccine.

In case you are wondering why India is rushing into production even prior to a decision by WHO, take a look at what happened there in 1918 as noted in The Great Influenza Pandemic by author, John M. Barry:

...the most terrifying numbers would come from India. As elsewhere, India suffered a spring wave. As elsewhere, this spring wave was relatively benign. In September influenza returned to Bombay. As elsewhere, it was no longer benign.

Yet India was not like elsewhere.

British troops, Caucasians, in India suffered a case mortality rate of 9.61%. For Indian troops, 21.69% of those who caught influenza died.

In the Indian subcontinent alone, it is likely that close to twenty million died, and quite possibly the death toll exceeded that number.

Is it any wonder that they are going forward with this decision? If I lived there, I would be worried too.

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Holding Your Breath for the New Vaccine?

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227083.900-swine-flu-vaccine-wont-be-ready-for-next-wave.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news

We will need those mitigation strategies to delay spread after all, if the virus returns in the fall as a more virulent strain.

A VACCINE against the Mexican swine flu sweeping the world is likely to arrive too late for most people, vaccine officials told New Scientist between a flurry of high-level industry meetings this week.

So the industry will not switch to H1N1 vaccine without WHO approval and the go-ahead from governments with vaccine contracts, says Bram Palache, chair of the European Vaccine Manufacturers (EVM) flu vaccine group. And even if that happens soon, there will be none before September because of the time needed to produce it.

...no vaccine until September, and no real quantities until October. Then countries have to administer millions of doses, which take weeks to take effect. In 1918, the worst wave of the pandemic hit in September.

It takes weeks for testing and formulating. That means no vaccine before September

The first to get pandemic vaccine will be the 15 countries who have pre-ordered a total of about 250 million doses.

The 15 countries with advance purchase agreements include Canada and Australia, which have vaccine plants, New Zealand, and 12 European countries including the UK. Europe has 70 per cent of the world's manufacturing capacity. Other countries, including Japan and China, plan to produce their own.

The US has one vaccine plant, owned by French drug giant Sanofi-Aventis, which could in theory produce enough for the US population. However, the US has no advance purchase order in place.

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Scottish Govt. Pulls The Vaccine Trigger

http://afludiary.blogspot.com/2009/05/scottish-govt-pulls-vaccine-trigger.html

Scotland is not waiting on WHO to decide. They are making an advance order of the swine flu vaccine which does not even exist yet.

Interesting...

Even under the most optimistic scenarios, 2/3rds of the world's population won't see a pandemic vaccine in the first year.

Because of that, and the likely scramble by nations to get in line for the limited production run, some countries are moving quick to get in the ordering queue.

Fearing that if they wait for WHO to raise the pandemic level to 6 that Scotland would have trouble procuring a vaccine, their government today announced their intention to purchase enough vaccine to cover their entire country.

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