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Currently the typical person contracting the disease is a healthy teenager in the mid-teen years (15 - 17). Although, ages of people who have had confirmed cases of the flu range in all age groups, from toddlers to senior citizens. However, the people at most risk for severe symptoms or untoward outcomes are defined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as:
Persons at increased risk of severe illness from influenza (i.e. high-risk persons) include those groups at higher risk for severe illness from seasonal influenza, including: children younger than 5 years old; persons aged 65 years or older; children and adolescents (younger than 18 years) who are receiving long-term aspirin therapy and who might be at risk for experiencing Reye syndrome after influenza virus infection; pregnant women; adults and children who have pulmonary, including Asthma, cardiovascular, hepatic, hematological, neurologic, neuromuscular, or metabolic disorders, such as Diabetes; adults and children who have immunosuppression (including immunosuppression caused by medications or by HIV); and, residents of nursing homes and other chronic-care facilities.
What else can I help you with?
Is there any risk to conceiving with the flu?
No, there should not be.
Are you at heightened risk of Swine Flu if you fly?
No, Only if you fly with someone who has swine flu, or you are flying to or from mexico.
Should you get swine flu are you in risk of getting it again?
No, if you have it you will be immune to it after that. However, viruses are able to mutate to slightly different strains rapidly. If that happens and you are exposed, you may still have some immunity, but you may not, in which case you could get the flu from a similar but different form of the virus.
How to get rid of Flu?
You cannot get rid of the flu. It is a virus. The symptoms can only be treated, until your antibodies can destroy the viral structure. This is why you get a flu shot because it significantly reduces the risk of getting the flu.
Would it be worth getting flu shot although you have had the flu?
Yes, because the flu changes from year to year and if you don't know if the flu you had was this years or last, why take the risk. Get one every year.
Is Swine Flu going to kill more people in 2010?
It is expected that one of the types of flu that will be prevalent in the 2010-2011 flu season in the Northern Hemisphere and US is H1N1/09 Pandemic Swine Flu again/still. It is still infecting people who have not had the vaccination. H1N1/09 will be among the viruses that the 2010 seasonal flu shot will protect against. There is still risk for those who get this type of flu in 2010 to die from the infection, but, hopefully, more people will get the vaccination and protect themselves and those they come in contact with against it. Those at high risk of complications and death from the flu should be vaccinated now as we go into the new flu season or it may well be the cause of death of more people in 2010. See the related question below about the high risk groups.
Do most babies die from Swine Flu?
Not necessarily, babies are definatley a risk with swine flu being that their immune system has not fully matured so a flu shot might be an option if you are worried. Old people are also at a risk due to their dying immune system. In teen years you are most likely not going to die because of swine flu due to your strong immune system so they are not at a risk.
What if you have been exposed and did not have a flu shot?
You may get the flu. Next year get the flu vaccination.
Can influenza only strike older adults?
People 65 or over are at a higher risk to get the flu, but anyone of any age can be infected by the flu viruses. Infants and young children are also especially vulnerable to the flu since they have immature immune systems. See the related question below about those at higher risk for the flu.
Do you have to have a Swine Flu needle to survive?
To survive what? Getting the swine flu? No, you do not have to be immunized to survive. Most people will survive getting the flu, but older people and really young people are at risk of dying.
Are flu shots bad for you, or are they actually beneficial for your health?
Flu shots are beneficial for your health. They help prevent the flu and its complications, reducing the risk of serious illness and hospitalization. The benefits of getting a flu shot outweigh any potential risks.
What will happen if you dont get vaccinated?
If you don't get a flu vaccination, either a shot or nasal mist, then you are putting yourself at an unnecessary health risk. It is proven that the risk of having a problem with the vaccine is so extremely low compared to the risk of catching and getting really sick from the flu (36,000 people a year in the US die from the seasonal flu), that it is ill-advised to avoid vaccination. The numbers speak for themselves. If you wouldn't bet your life in a poker game, you shouldn't gamble with it with serious diseases, either. You not only put yourself in unnecessary danger, you also put loved ones and others to whom you can spread it at the same or higher risk. It is just common sense.
