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Politics : Swine Flu -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Rock_nj who wrote (375)	9/17/2009 5:30:45 PM
From: kimberley	Respond to of 463

<<At least you now have immunity to swine flu.>> LOL, and I'm thankful for that! Yes, I'm experiencing all the joys of prednisone - he's got me on 80mg a day until next week, then start tapering. It's a miracle drug, but it sure wrecks havoc with your body. I'm glad the vaccine is on it's way. The flu part, imo, isn't any worse than other strains, but does seem to have more potential to cause pulmonary problems: Two separate teams – one led by Ron Fouchier at Erasmus University in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and the other by Terrence Tumpey at the Centres for Disease Control in Atlanta, Georgia – both report that the pandemic virus binds deeper than ordinary flu in the respiratory tract of ferrets, the animal most like humans when it comes to flu. A virus of the same H1N1 family as the pandemic flu has been circulating as ordinary seasonal flu since 1977. Both groups found that the seasonal virus binds almost exclusively to cells in the ferrets' noses. But, the pandemic H1N1 binds deeper, in the lung's trachea, bronchi and bronchioles. The pandemic virus also replicated more, and caused more damage, though none of the ferrets were severely ill. newscientist.com