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Flu infections sweep America hospitalizing thousands leaving 18 children dead ....
daily mail.co.uk ^ | 1/5/2013 | Daily Mail Reporter

Posted on 01/05/2013 4:31:43 PM PST by Aquamarine

Flu infections sweep America hospitalizing thousands leaving 18 children dead ....

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: flu; influenza
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1 posted on 01/05/2013 4:31:46 PM PST by Aquamarine
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To: Aquamarine

What’d we do? Send out the wrong flu vaccine?


2 posted on 01/05/2013 4:35:43 PM PST by Migraine (Diversity is great; until it happens to YOU.)
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To: Aquamarine
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3 posted on 01/05/2013 4:36:40 PM PST by Hoodat ("As for God, His way is perfect" - Psalm 18:30)
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To: Aquamarine
"2,257 people have been hospitalized since the start of flu season"

How many of these people are illegals? Just wondering.

4 posted on 01/05/2013 4:40:59 PM PST by NoGrayZone (For evil to triumph it is only necessary for good men to do nothing.)
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To: Migraine

Must have. I had the flu shot a few months ago and still got it. It’s horrible.


5 posted on 01/05/2013 4:41:56 PM PST by Aquamarine
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To: Migraine

“Send out the wrong flu vaccine?”

I wonder...
I got mine late, in December, and unlike previous years I didn’t feel slightly achy as I always seem to do. It almost felt like...nothing.


6 posted on 01/05/2013 4:42:03 PM PST by Shugee
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To: Shugee

My wife and I felt feverish and achy for several days after our shot.


7 posted on 01/05/2013 4:45:42 PM PST by doc1019
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"and New York City reporting high levels of flu activity,"

Didn't bloomturd invite all illegals to NYC? Guess they took his invitation.

Not to mention all the foreigners moving into NYC that can afford it's too high priced "homes". They do not have the built up immune system that we have.

Escape From NY......in the plans.

8 posted on 01/05/2013 4:47:02 PM PST by NoGrayZone (For evil to triumph it is only necessary for good men to do nothing.)
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To: Aquamarine

The Obamugabe regime has whacked funds for epidemiological studies to the bone ~ no surprise at all we have a wildfire flu epidemic underway killing scores of children ~


9 posted on 01/05/2013 4:47:10 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: Migraine

The flu vaccine is always a year behind the current flu. Older folks who’ve gone through many flu epidemics and had yearly flu shots are less vulnerable than younger people. They’ve had time to build up an immunity of sorts.


10 posted on 01/05/2013 4:47:59 PM PST by SkyDancer (Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral.)
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To: doc1019

Forgot to get it last month. Been getting it since
2009 even though I’ve never had the flu.


11 posted on 01/05/2013 4:48:02 PM PST by Morris70
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To: Aquamarine

Interesting, we have to get this information from a British publication.


12 posted on 01/05/2013 4:48:52 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: Morris70

At my age I can’t afford not to get the shot. ;-)


13 posted on 01/05/2013 4:51:01 PM PST by doc1019
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To: Morris70

I got a flu shot in 1980 and got sick as could be. I don’t recall if I’ve ever had the flu. Certainly not recently.
But I’m thinking of getting flu shots regularly because I read somewhere that they prevent heart attacks.
Whatever.


14 posted on 01/05/2013 4:53:09 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: Aquamarine

Already had it...
Grumble... Grumble...

Got the Shot more than 6 weeks ago
Fortunately Wife didn’t get it (yay!)


15 posted on 01/05/2013 4:57:58 PM PST by HangnJudge
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To: SkyDancer
They’ve had time to build up an immunity of sorts.

Believe that is true, I've had two very bad flues many, many years ago, have never caught any since.
One was so bad, didn't know if I was going to make it, semi-delirious with the only thing in my mind was if I could make it to sunrise, I would live.
Bad, very bad.
Can't even remember the last time I caught a regular cold, must be better than 30 years.

16 posted on 01/05/2013 5:00:25 PM PST by The Cajun (Sarah Palin, Mark Levin......Nuff said.)
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I’m just getting over the flu here. One of the worst ones I think I ever had and I havent had a flu in several years. I’d occasionally get a strep throat sinus infection but even that was years ago. Weird thing is every time I got a flu shot before, I’d get the flu for a few days and that is precisely why I am getting a shot to avoid the 2-3 days of having the flu and feeling like crap and having to take off of work losing $$$$$


17 posted on 01/05/2013 5:05:11 PM PST by Blue Highway
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To: Aquamarine

that’s why I stopped getting the flu shot. I had a hard time spending $$ to GET SICK... Now that I don’t take the flu shot I never get sick, despite this year being the first time in several years. Had to break down and get Tamiflu as I was getting a chest infection and that was the first time in 10-15 years I even needed to go to a walk in clinic. When did the prices of an office visit go up from $50-$75? The first couple of places said $130.


18 posted on 01/05/2013 5:11:01 PM PST by Blue Highway
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To: Blue Highway
I've had several people get it that I've been around and haven't gotten it myself???
I'm 66 though and probably have some form of immunity.
Haven't gotten a flu shot in 8-10 years, don't know if I'm doing the right thing or not.
There is always some screwy crap coming out about right vaccine, wrong vaccine, etc.
19 posted on 01/05/2013 5:14:06 PM PST by The Cajun (Sarah Palin, Mark Levin......Nuff said.)
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To: The Cajun

Hope I never have to go thru that. I take the shots but am scared every time I do it.


20 posted on 01/05/2013 5:16:16 PM PST by SkyDancer (Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral.)
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