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Originally Posted by Winsor_Pilates
Do you have any medical sources to back this up? Everything I've read has said the opposite, with children and elderly being at most risk (as always), and there are clearly many many time more people getting sick and/or dying from regular seasonal flu.
I'm not 100% set on this one. If I start reading from enough credible sources that I should be getting this shot, then I will; but I don't want to get it based simply on mass panic and news sensationalization.
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http://www.newscientist.com/article/...ly-threat.html
While H1N1 mostly causes mild disease, some people – estimates suggest fewer than 1 per cent – become deathly ill, very fast.
At a meeting last week in Winnipeg, Canada, experts warned that these cases could overwhelm hospitals. "These were the sickest people I've ever seen," says Anand Kumar, an intensive care expert at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg.
This is an older article, but it outlines a potential problem. But this flu has also been effecting healthy middle aged women more so than average.The only mass panic and over sensationalized that is happening is on the internet and in the media. But honestly would you get your medical advice from them? The Public Health Agency of Canada is much better source for information.
http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/alert-ale.../index-eng.php