<p>H1N1</a> Could Kill Up to 90,000 in U.S., Report Says - Infectious Disease - FOXNews.com</p>
<p>With teenagers and young adults at risk, are you worried?</p>
<p>No. </p>
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<p>To be honest, not really.</p>
<p>As far as I can tell, I’d be just about as likely to die of this flu as any other, especially considering I’ve never been vaccinated and never had the flu.</p>
<p>The only person I’d say I am worried about is my niece. She has pretty bad asthma and gets especially sick when she catches anything that affects her upper respiratory system. She’s been hospitalized for colds before, but not since she was pretty small. Now that she’s bigger she’s a lot less frail than she used to be.</p>
<p>I had swine flu and I survived. Didn’t take any medicine other than Tylenol, and I am totally fine. I didn’t even infect my family members.</p>
<p>I’d only be worried if it was Ebola.</p>
<p>I toured a college on Friday and there were hand sanitizing stations everywhere.</p>
<p>The H1N1 flu virus could cause as many as 30,000 and 90,000 deaths in the United States and “poses a serious health threat” the Obama administration’s advisory group on Science and Technology said in a report released Monday.</p>
<p>Deaths would be concentrated among children and young adults, according to the report. </p>
<p>In contrast, the typical seasonal flu kills between 30,000 and 40,000 annually — mainly among people over 65.</p>
<p>There is real concern as there will be two flus out there - swine flu and seasonal flu. The target for the swine flu vaccine will be children through college age students plus health care workers. I will make sure my kids get it.</p>
<p>Major medical centers all have plans in place including “locking down” to the general public. If more than half of ventilators in a given hospital are depolyed to influenza patients Americans will start to see true rationing of health care.</p>
<p>i’d only be worried if you could get swine flu (which is much more fun to say in a southern accent btw) from eating bacon, because bacon is delicious and i like bacon. but, alas, you cannot…so no worries</p>
<p>Also had swine flu, also survived. I didn’t go to the doctor and I didn’t get anyone else sick, just took some alka seltzer and slept for a week except for work. It was only a matter of time before I got it anyway; Wisconsin has an unusually high rate of swine flu cases. I believe we have the most confirmed cases in the country, and are fourth in the amount of deaths (New York, Calfornia, and Florida have more). I’m just glad I got sick over the summer instead of during school, though I was taking a summer class at the time.</p>
<p>not really,and I haven’t seen any person wearing a mask on the street in Indiana.</p>
<p>Swine flu is just the like the normal flu except on a different cycle to have happened not in flu season. <a href=“http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=swine_flu[/url]”>I hope I get swine flu.; This explains just well :)</p>
<p>@ Aodhan: I’m wondering how you knew it was swine flu without going to the doctor?</p>
<p>My friend came back from her vacation in Mexico today and school starts next week. Should I be worried? LOL Don’t wanna get sick on my first week of school.</p>
<p>I am. I had swine flu last year and it made me really, really sick. (I shut down my whole high school for a week :)). </p>
<p>I am really anemic and generally when something goes around, I get it. Am I afraid of dying from it? Not really.</p>
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<p>Actually, almost all cases of flu right now are swine flu. Most states don’t even bother testing for it anymore. I don’t think Wisconsin has it any worse than anywhere else. I think they have just done a better job of testing.</p>
<p>If you start Tamiflu or Relenza within 48 hours of symptoms, your case will be much milder. Remember this if you’ve got a fever and congestion.</p>
<p>It’s a flu. It’s just a flu.</p>
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The problem is, people have no antibodies to this flu. So, people like me with bad immune systems are in deep trouble when we get it. Normal people with normal immune systems are not in that deep of trouble because their bodies can easily fight a new virus. However, some of us don’t make new antibodies that quickly.</p>
<p>I am worried because I have severe asthma and a crap immune system, so any kind of flu is a concern for me, and I have really bad healthcare coverage at the moment. My school is going to get the vaccine as soon as possible and it will be available at no cost, but I am worried about it running out before I can get it or having to miss classes to stand in line for it. They are also not giving anyone tamiflu unless they are pregnant, over 60, younger than 5, or asthmatic. So I guess I’ll be able to get it as long as they don’t run out of that, either.</p>
<p>We’ve actually already gotten an email saying they expect MANY students to get it and that they are talking to professors to tell them to be lenient with absences because if we have a fever they don’t want us to leave our room for anything until it breaks. I am trying not to worry about it too much but it is wearing on my nerves somewhat, I must say. I have not missed school for illness unless I was vomiting or fainting in years, I can’t imagine missing university level classes for a sniffle but I guess I’ll have to.</p>
<p>coworker of mine nearly died from swine flu. although this doesn’t apply to him I’ve also heard a lot of the people that do actually die from it are obese.</p>
<p>I may or may not have it. It’s either the flu, or a cold- my fever’s been pretty solid at 101-102 and I’m coughing/have a sore throat, and have sensitive lymph nodes, but I don’t think I’ll die from it, even if I do have asthma.</p>
<p>I just wish my classmate hadn’t coughed all over me for a week straight. </p>
<p>I’m not <em>too</em> worried though.</p>