My family (all four of us) have just had swine flu.

My wife and son seem to have had the worst time with it.

My duaghter and I had it but we weren't as bad off as they were.

I had a flu two years ago that I honestly thought I might die from. This swine flu was no where near as bad as that one.

My points are:

we weren't vaccinated (not due to vaccination opposition, there was none available)

we all got h1n1 whithin days of one another.

My wife and son never get sick. Never get flu vaccines. Never get the flu. BUT they got this one an it kicked their asses. They refused to take the tamiflu.

They gave my daughter and I tamiflu. Remembering the last flu and seeing my wife go through that I am glad I had tamiflu. It greatly reduced the flu effects.

It's not the boogey man virus. It does suck though.
It's easily comunnicable due to a lack of herd immunity.

Take care of yourself.

When I first heard about the FluMist in the news a couple of nights ago, it somehow triggered red flags in my mind. It seems wierd in my opinion. I've been talking to my family and loved ones, and I for sure am not getting the vaccination. Hell, I've never even taken a "normal" flu shot, ever.

Thanks for bumping this thread up. I had not not seen it yet.

To the OP: S & F thank you for this needed information. The numbers and their meanings are staggering. Just think about this! Let's say 1,000,000 people got the flu mist. Most of those that got it are health care works and repsonders. They got it at WORK while working in a health care setting. It was being dispensed in the middle of the ER to the ER docs and nurses that then turned and treated high-risk patients with the virus running back out their noses.

If 50% (500,000) infected 2.4% of EVERYONE they came into contact with over the course of lets say 5 days, well lets do some math. I am a healthcare worker in an ER. In the course of a day of workI come into contact with about let's say 300 people when you take into account the sick, their family, my co-workers and then my normal every-day contact. (remember H1N1 has a spread of up to 10 ft from the infected person) That works out to about 7 people a day times 5 days is 35. That means that if I HAD gotten the Flu Mist like my employer tried to talk me into, I potentially would have infected at LEAST 35 people with H1N1.

Multiply that by 500,000 people equals about 17,500,000 (yes that's millions) that could have been infected by the flu mist vaccine. Now this is only an estimate. I have searched the CDC and can not find an accurate number of HOW MANY doses of this went out. The closest I got was "millions of doses have been distributed". So the number I came up with is probably only a third of the actual people that have been infected because of it.

This means that most likely the number is probably closer to 50,000,000 people have potentially been infected by the shedding of viruses from the H1N1 flu mist!!!