Newsbot Posted September 10, 2007 Share Posted September 10, 2007 Plans to vaccinate all Isle of Man residents against pandemic flu are being considered. Source : http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/world/...man/6986912.stm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TerryMcCann Posted September 10, 2007 Share Posted September 10, 2007 Well they know where they can stick that. I'm not being injected with an unknown vaccine to protect against an unknown strain of a virus that may not even strike anyway. I'll take my chances thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cronky Posted September 10, 2007 Share Posted September 10, 2007 Same here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grianane Posted September 10, 2007 Share Posted September 10, 2007 Likewise. They need to start educating people as to hygiene and health issues. Promising a vacine sounds great what if the strain mutates and the vacine doesn't work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ai_Droid Posted September 10, 2007 Share Posted September 10, 2007 Likewise. They need to start educating people as to hygiene and health issues. Promising a vacine sounds great what if the strain mutates and the vacine doesn't work. What have you lost if that happens? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigDave Posted September 10, 2007 Share Posted September 10, 2007 They've got to use up their stock of Tamiflu before it all expires somehow! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ans Posted September 10, 2007 Share Posted September 10, 2007 The best thing to do is to not avoid catching it. I'm not suggesting you go humping chickens, but I personally wont be taking any vaccines. Historically, pandemics come in waves. The first wave is the weakest and if you're in good health, you're almost guaranteed to survive it. When it mutates for subsequent waves, it's much stronger and it's these that kill you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Tatlock Posted September 10, 2007 Share Posted September 10, 2007 If they know what form the virus is 'likely' to be take - why can't we mutate it ourselves now so it just attacks chavs and anyone with an IQ less than 100? We could then store mass quantities of it at Pirbright Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mutley Posted September 10, 2007 Share Posted September 10, 2007 Yet again more fantastic logic from Dr Parameshwaran Kishore and his team. Back in 2005 they discontinued the TB immunisation programme (BCG injections) for the Isle of Man despite the fact that in the UK and worldwide new cases of TB were on the increase. Every year, in the UK, about 500 people die from the disease (source BUPA). Nearly nine million new cases of TB, and nearly two million deaths from TB, are estimated to occur around the world every year. TB is the leading cause of death among curable infectious diseases. The World Health Organization declared TB a global emergency in 1993. (source HPA) Cases of Tuberculosis rise steeply during 2005 Cases of Tuberculosis (TB) in England, Wales and Northern Ireland have increased by 10.8% from 7,321 cases reported in 2004 to 8,113 in 2005 according to new figures released today by the Health Protection Agency. Dr John Watson, Head of the Respiratory Diseases Department at the Agency, said "Levels of TB have been increasing year on year since the late 1980s. This is, however, the largest increase we have seen in any one year since 1999 when we introduced a new surveillance system which provides us with more detailed information about patterns of TB." (source HPA) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluemonday Posted September 10, 2007 Share Posted September 10, 2007 "If we almost sort of postulate" Me no understand brainy medical talk.................................... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Millman Posted September 10, 2007 Share Posted September 10, 2007 I agree with Mr Unpronounceable we should vaccinate every body against everything. The we can rule the world as some sort madly xenophobic, couldn't organise a p'up in a brewery, supermen. Now dispatch the giant robotic seagull sculptures to poop on our enemies freshly washed cars Bwohahahaha. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thesultanofsheight Posted September 10, 2007 Share Posted September 10, 2007 Plans to vaccinate all Isle of Man residents against pandemic flu are being considered. Source : http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/world/...man/6986912.stm Why is this man obsessed with bloody bird flu and deaths from flu pandemics? If you think I'm stupid enough to be pumped full of a vaccine on the off chance that it will cover the strain when found and if it ever happens you've got another thing coming. Turn the record off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarahc Posted September 10, 2007 Share Posted September 10, 2007 Bring it on. *holds out arm* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slinkydevil Posted September 10, 2007 Share Posted September 10, 2007 Take the vaccine! I watched this documentary about Flu and 28 days later all hell broke loose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TerryMcCann Posted September 11, 2007 Share Posted September 11, 2007 Take the vaccine! I watched this documentary about Flu and 28 days later all hell broke loose. Wait till you see what happens 28 weeks after that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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