Swine flu vaccine may become a moot point
Whether or not we get a swine flu vaccine shot in Oregon may become a moot point real soon. Swine flu is overrunning my area of southern Oregon, yet local health officials say they think the swine flu vaccine shots are still several weeks off. In about a week, county health officials will begin administering the nasal spray for kids.
Much of the local youth population has already begun building antibodies to the swine flu by having contracted the mild version of it. I believe all my kids and grandkids may have already had it, since all have had flu-like symptoms and doctors here say at least 99% of the flu locally is swine flu. About a quarter of the local grammar school population was home sick just a few days ago. Swine flu has come on much more rapidly than anyone expected. We’re fortunate most cases have been mild so far.
My pregnant daughter, Annie, the managing editor of BHM, has still not gotten swine flu, and she is in the highest risk category for complications from it. So that is still a worry. Yesterday she and I got our regular flu shots. Regular flu season is still about a month away.
October 15th, 2009 at 12:23 pm
Just wanted to add my 2 cents and say that here in southeastern Idaho we are OVERRUN with swine flu. The schools have 20-30% sickness and all my children’s friends are sick. My children were mildly sick several weeks ago. I now think this was swine flu and that’s why they aren’t sick now. Hopefully things stay mild. I didn’t think it could be swine flu at first because I didn’t find noticeable fever, but the doctors are saying sometimes the fever is mild and short and sometimes it’s high. We’ll keep our fingers crossed for Annie.