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But to keep it in perspective we did not have antibiotics for the complications, housing conditions were of a lower standard often more people per household, hygiene was poorer so it is extremely unlikely that we will ever see anything on that scale again. I believe we have on average 4000 deaths per year in the UK from influenza so to date this has been quite mild and just an unseasonal flu epidemic. As for having the vaccine, probably not. First I hate the sharp pointy things and I have only ever had flu once so I believe the risk to be low. If I am still working around the NHS then I think it will be my duty to have it, we shall see. On the bright side I should get some work out of it. From: [log in to unmask] [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Alan Sent: 16 July 2009 18:01 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [OCC-HEALTH] Influenza It's an arguable point - such people would rank very low in priority so I would probably offer them last to that group , but previous posts to this list have described the variation in mortality rates between the successive waves. Remember too that the 1918/1919 outbreak was an H1N1 strain - and killed millions of young and healthy people. Antiviral treatment hasn't progressed a huge way since then, at least for flu. The counterargument would be for you consider what you would do if you edit the word "flu" and put in the word "measles", for example. As a reasonably healthy person ( half a day off sick in the last 21 years), I think I'd have it, once I know that the vaccine is safe and effective. Should we poll the readers of this list and see who would and who would not take up the offer of the vaccine? Alan Glenn Raybone wrote: In a message dated 16/07/2009 10:56:07 GMT Standard Time, [log in to unmask] writes: We are being told to give 2 pandemic flu injections 3 weeks apart as well as the seasonal flu. can I just ask if anyone who is healthy and with no underlying health conditions would seriously have a single jab let alone two?? Glenn ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Please remove this footer before replying. OCC-HEALTH ARCHIVES: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/occ-health.html CONFERENCES AND STUDY DAYS: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/filearea.cgi?LMGT1=OCC-HEALTH OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH JOBS http://OHJobs.drmaze.net OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH NURSING EDUCATION http://www.aohne.org.uk ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Please remove this footer before replying. OCC-HEALTH ARCHIVES: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/occ-health.html CONFERENCES AND STUDY DAYS: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/filearea.cgi?LMGT1=OCC-HEALTH OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH JOBS http://OHJobs.drmaze.net OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH NURSING EDUCATION http://www.aohne.org.uk