the h1n1 vaccine is almost here

According to CNN, it looks like the H1N1 vaccine is almost here!  Yippee!  Seriously though, I have seen personally a sharp rise in flu admissions to the hospitals I work for and find it quite scary my current patient is a lady in her second trimester with possible H1N1.  It's not that I am personally scared of H1N1.  I've personally never had the flu, I don't believe... there's one time where I may have had the flu but it's sketchy.  College life, you know. But, the very young and the very old at risk.  Seems to me the obese have a worse case as well.

Here's a chart that I've been following to follow outbreaks.  I hope you find it useful.

Swine Flu

Oh, sorry... I meant to say H1N1. I wouldn't want the farmers to have to slaughter their swine since people aren't eating swine with the thoughts of pigs passing this disease to us. Stop the presses. You mean farmers are killing pigs because of the Swine Flu?

And you are upset?

Aren't the pigs going to get slaughtered anyway? *sigh*

Here we are in the middle of a mild case of the flu hitting the US in the spring. Glad it didn't hit in the fall.

Underlying conditions like asthma, diabetes, heart disease or tuberculosis appear to put swine flu victims at greater risk of hospitalization or death, doctors from the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday.

** so does the regular flu **

Swine flu tally reaches 3,440 in 29 countries: from the World Health Organization.