Piglet Flu

[gigolohitman]

I'm suffering at the moment, from the aftereffects of the swine flu jab. Apparently nothing like as bad as actual swine flu, but I still feel pretty yuck, and yesterday time was going at a different rate in my head from the real world

Comments

[gigolohitman]

Regardless of the illness duration? Like, I'd put up with an hour of severe pain rather than a 1% of death, for instance.

[gigolohitman]

Oh god, like every day you woke up and there was a 10% chance you'd be better, but you keep waking up and you're still in pain... :-(

[teahisme]

I would say a disease with a mortality rate that was great than 5%. Although that said, I think I would rather roll the dice disease than roll the dice on someone euthanizing me.

I do think there are vaccines out there that carry a risk of death. IIRC people still regularly receive them.

[ghostpaw]

All pharmeceuticals carry a risk of death. However, an aweful lot of testing goes into making sure that risk is smaller-than-negligable. Vaccines won't kill you unless you are really very unlucky indeed.

[teahisme]

agreed. Still that might be a 1:100 chance of random demise. So one might say that getting those vaccines meets his criteria. I just wish I could remember which ones. I'm going to blame pregnancy brain.

[ghostpaw]

Regarding the Piggy Plague, I'll tell you what the senior microbiology consultant at my lab told me:
If you don't have any underlying health conditions, if you are immunonormal, you're not pregnant, you're not in close contact with anyone else with in the above categories, and you don't get seasonal flu, then there's not a lot of point getting the vaccine. If you do fit into any of the above categories, or if you do (in the absence of vaccination) get seasonal flu most years, then get the swine flu shot, and get the seasonal one as well. Swine flu is no more likely to kill you than 'normal' flu, but then 'normal' flu is pretty horrid anyway.

[trailingvortex]

Hope you feel better soon, piglet! And that you don't grow a curly tail... :(