Originally posted by punctual
reply to post by Vitchilo

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seems like everyone who took the swine flu vaccine got sick and people who didn't take it stayed healthy....tells me that i shouldn't be trusting the government recommended vaccines from now on...

Originally posted by punctual
reply to post by Vitchilo

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seems like everyone who took the swine flu vaccine got sick and people who didn't take it stayed healthy....tells me that i shouldn't be trusting the government recommended vaccines from now on...

U.S. health officials remain on the alert for additional cases of a new swine flu strain that infected three Iowa children this month.

Since July, 10 Americans have been sickened by S-OtrH3N2 viruses that picked up a gene from the 2009 H1N1 swine flu pandemic, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported. The new flu strain combines a rare influenza virus (H3N2) circulating in North American pigs and the H1N1 virus from the 2009 outbreak. New flu strains develop when flu viruses combine in new ways. They can pose health risks because people haven’t yet developed immunity to them.

Of the other seven cases of the new swine flu, three occurred in Pennsylvania, two in Maine and two in Indiana, the CDC reported in a Wednesday dispatch in its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. In all of those cases, either the patients or close contacts had been recently exposed to pigs. The lack of pig exposure in the three newest cases suggested that the new virus may involve limited person-to-person contact. As part of routine preparedness to counter pandemic threats from new flu viruses, CDC said it had developed a “candidate vaccine virus” that could be used to make a human vaccine against S-OtrH3N2 viruses and has sent it to vaccine manufacturers.