H1N1 Flu Virus Preparedness Guides Arrive in Toronto Mailboxes
The Public Health Agency of Canada has equipped Canada Post mail carriers with H1N1 flu virus literature, and it's being delivered to Toronto mailboxes today. Mine just arrived, and I had a chance to take a quick look at it.
The brochure is a concise summary of the most important information and facts about swine flu including: symptom recognition, severity indicators, tips on protecting yourself, and details about high risk groups. It also points us to much more information at www.fightflu.ca, where several more print-ready, information rich PDF downloads are available.
If you want hard copies of the detailed, multi-page guides and don't have a printer, call 1-800-O-Canada and arrange to have them mailed to you.
Similar information, and information on vaccination clinics in Toronto can also be found on the Toronto Public Health H1N1 flu virus web page.
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Map via Toronto Star's Map of the Week.
Comments (19)
The real question is, lets say you just happen to have a fully encapsulated hazmat suit in your closet, would it be a)funny or b)creepy to wear it while shelling out tomorrow night?
STEP ONE: Avoid vaccines that contain dangerous adjuvants.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=a_xObcaSxF2o
Some facts on adjuvants: http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/alert-alerte/h1n1/faq_rg_h1n1-eng.php#av They are already commonly used in many other standard vaccines, there is no need for panic and terror about using them in the H1N1 vaccine.
i understood MC's comment to be sarcasm. I know, it's a little harder to sense online than in person.
I think Rick Mercer said it best when he said that the only thing these flyers or the website can do is confuse you.
Is the Public Health Agency of Canada just trying to spread mass chaos and confusion about this H1N1 BS?! It's just a more toned down flu for crying out loud!
The only think i got from looking at that flyer was to cure H1N1 you have to stand behind your child rather creepily and rub their hands in a seductive manner.
Kind of odd.
I was going to point out how you might have been missing the sarcasm in Jerrold's comment, but then I wondered, what if you were being sarcastic to?
this is spreading and acting no different then the regular season flu's. Just the media and blogs, blowing it way out of the water.
The CDC (Center for Disease Control) estimates that about 36,000 people died in the north America last year from the flu. so lets do the numbers, yeah swine flu isn't all that.
According to the flyer, "not waking up" is a symptom of H1N1. Thats pretty dark, Government of Ontario.
I believe the issue with this particular strain of the flu is that it's new to us. We (humanity!) don't have the same ability to deal with H1N1 so it will hit us harder and spread faster. It probably won't be a mass-death scenario but it will, by all accounts, be a situation where many more people will get very sick and possibly die simply because we don't have any existing resistance.
Getting vaccinated isn't purely about the personal benefit. Though young people (esp. females) seem to be especially prone, we're healthy and we can probably fight through it. Other groups (kids, old people, people with certain diseases, pregnant women) don't have that benefit, and getting vaccinated reduces the risk that you'll pass H1N1 on to them.
It's the responsible thing to do.
The flu vaccine is a myth. People should think twice about things they see on tv, specially news that tell them they have to get vaccinated!
Beware, this is just a media scam to feed the pharmaceutical corporations. Don't let fear brain wash you!
i figure I'll just let everyone else panic and get the shot, reducing my chances of getting the flu from them.
Sounds like a plan. Not like there's a historical precedent of largely untested pharmaceuticals being dangerous or anything..... I don't really like how GlaxoSmithKline's contract with the federal government for the sale of the H1N1 vaccine involves a clause under which the feds pay for settlements and legal expenses should there be severe complications stemming from the vaccine. Seems a bit too preemptive for my tastes.
Boy Rushed To Hospital After Swine Flu Jab
The safety of Northern Ireland’s swine flu vaccination programme was called into question today by the parent of a young special needs pupil who ended up in hospital just hours after getting the jab.
Anne Marie Fletcher said she feared her 15-year-old son Rhys was going to die as she rushed him to hospital less than 24 hours after receiving the swine flu vaccine.
The teenager fell seriously ill after receiving the injection, along with thousands of other pupils across Northern Ireland last Friday. He was later diagnosed with swine flu.
“My husband drove us to Antrim (Area Hospital) and I sat in the back with Rhys,” she told the Belfast Telegraph.
“By this stage he was going into spasms. He couldn’t bend his fingers. I was absolutely terrified.
“He was rambling and becoming incoherent. I honestly thought he was going to die in the back of the car.
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