Do you think they will shut down schools in Canada due to Swine Flu?
I’ve heard that they closed some schools in the states, do you think it will impact Canada?
What are the chances that the public schools in Calgary Alberta will be shut down
and for how long will they quarantine if they do?
Yes, if one student or member of staff has been to the school in the 7days before being diagnosed, then the school is shud down for 7 days, or until they believe there is no longer a risk of it spreading. This is what many other schools have done around the world unless the flu is widespred, and then the schools may be shut all at the same time, on which case it may be longer than one week.
2009 Swine Flu Outbreak – Canada Indentifies Link Between Mexico and US Cases
Watching the news, I hear them saying that people dont even get sick enough to require hospitalization and that it is less serious than the regular seasonal flu which kills more peopl. Yet why are they covering every single case that pops up and why is the pandemic alert at a level 4? Arn’t all flus pandemic?
You have to remember that bird flu was at level 4 too and we know how that turned out. Besides there was already a Swine Flu Scare in the 70s and we handled that pretty effeciently. I’m sure that we’ll be fine.
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I have heard on the news that swine flu will be in britain for up to five years and 1/3 people may get it I am really scared is this dangerous and what about vaccines and all. Sorry for asking more questions
Apology accepted.
There will be a vaccine which comes out next month in time for the more virulent strain of the virus in the autumn. We are all in the same boat, worrying won’t make it go away.
For the vast majority of people, the H1N1 strain will pose no threat to health and the vast majority of people have and will make a full recovery without any complications. Influenza A is only really a risk for people with severe health problems.
It’s not something we should be panicking over, it’s just something we need to be aware of.
Worldwide and UK data suggests the swine flu death rate is 0.5 or 0.4%. One good thing about this strain of flu is that research suggests that the Swine Flu Virus attacks the respiratory system in a more sustained way than the standard seasonal flu virus.
When will a vaccine for the swine flu become available in the united states?
It is already available. Those around when President Gerry Ford ordered mandatory flu shots for every American only to find that the shots killed more Americans than the flu did are justified in their continued skepticism.
There’s no denying the success of vaccinations to stamp out diseases like smallpox. What is driving doubts about vaccinations today is an increasing lack of trust in government at the same time as government seems willing to apply force, as in the New York case, to get the desired result.
Government compulsion is also the fist inside the velvet glove of health insurance “reform.”. Growing public awareness of the extent government force will be the dominant feature of the “reform”, has driven the recent surge of public opposition. And that was before we heard that there could be criminal penalties for not buying insurance.
Governmental force can be found in nearly every section of the House version, HR 3200. There’s limitations on Doctor income, limitations on investments by doctors, limitations on hospital expansion, and regulations governing the extent of care, and the application of medicine for every case. The legislation of course authorizes a huge new set of agencies with the power to promulgate reams of subsequent regulations which will obliterate the doctor-patient relationship.
The same mentality that led President Clinton to blurt out that taxes were good because “we know better how to spend your money than you do” is evident today in the arrogant attitude that only this behemoth increase in government power can save us from our inability to provide health care to ourselves and our loved ones. o_O
