Thread: From now on I will be having flu jab

Originally Posted by newhue

glad to hear your back on deck. Can I ask you age? and Perhaps how would you rate your general fitness.

At 42 I don't give it any thought, but I am starting to realise I'm not as bullet proof as I like to think I am.

Hi Jason, I'm 38. My general fitness is OK.... Can't run a marathon, but can do most things without being short of breath.

The doctor that looked after me at the hospital said that he had seen 5 other cases like mine in the last 2 weeks.

I'm still suffering slightly with headache and aches and pains, but should be back on deck mid next week.

Cheers everyone, and stay healthy.

Matt

I had the jab once. That was the worst winter I ever had with colds, sniffles, flu etc ending up in hospital for a week and ill for months afterwards. Never had one since and never been crook like that again.

Originally Posted by Eevo

i see this myth is still making its rounds.

Not a myth at all.

Originally Posted by Brian Hjelm

I had the jab once. That was the worst winter I ever had with colds, sniffles, flu etc ending up in hospital for a week and ill for months afterwards. Never had one since and never been crook like that again.

Me too, some years ago and since then...have had several savage bouts of the flu, - the last one so bad that even SWMBO was genuinely sympathetic

Why ? - Because it was 'free' at work/peer pressure, very well advertised etc etc - and I blindly trusted the Medical fraternity...

Just co-incidence that my cardiac health went south afterwards... and found that most of the Nurses AND Doctors in the CCU had'nt and would'nt be jabbed, and had their reasons...

PS, Anyone ever read, or even seen the leaflet that comes with the 'Flu vaccine ?

I am 67 and have the flu jab every year and I cannot remember when I have my last flu. It works for me.
I also get the pneumonia jab even if I am one case in a million to suffer the rare side effect of intolerance to pain for several days.

University of Adelaide

Of all vaccine preventable diseases, influenza is the number one cause of death. It is becoming increasingly recognised that influenza has a signi?cant impact on cardiac and respiratory deaths.

Dept health & aging

• Since the beginning of the year there have been 10,702 laboratory confirmed cases of influenza reported. Over the past fortnight there were 2,688 notifications, with almost a third reported from New South Wales (919).

• Nationally, whilst influenza A remains the predominant influenza virus type, the proportion of influenza B continues to be higher than recent seasons. During the 2012 season there were very few notifications of influenza A(H1N1) pdm09. So far in 2013 whilst the majority of influenza A reports are unsubtyped, more than 10% of overall notifications have been reported as influenza A(H1N1) pdm09.

Annual flu deaths USA

63,730 annual deaths for influenza and pneumonia (NVSR Sep 2001); estimated 20,000 deaths from flu (NIAID)

Certainly as we get older the risk rises significantly.


Martyn

Tis true Martyn.

But...........the flu jab has been available to me for years through work and I have never availed myself of it and I have only had what could be determined as the "flu", once in my life.

Now 60 and I expect my aversion to the jab may not last forever.

According to the Department of Health and Ageing the annual death rate by influenza in Australia is 2,500 to 3,000 persons. Not such a rare event, I'm afraid.