Facts Part One: 1st Dosage

• The vaccine is free.
• If you have swine flu, STAY HOME and don't get others sick! Your Professors will work with you and are aware of the upcoming flu season.
  
• The initial dose of the H1N1 vaccine will be in the form of nasal spray!
• Supposedly, if you were unfathomably sick between last April and July (2009), and it was a fever but unlike one you've experienced before, then there's a good chance you actually HAD swine flu! If you got better from it, CONGRATS.
  
• Biologically, if you've never had a form of a disease before and you get hit with it for the first time, it's generally going to be very hard. HOWEVER, after you've been hit once, your immune systems builds. The reason why H1N1 has seemed to hit so hard is because it is the most recent strain of the flu virus, thus hitting hardest because it is so new. However, just like anything, our immunities build and we get better and stronger from them (if we give them a chance to build).
  
• Those at greatest risk of getting sick are pregnant women and people (especially children) with chronic medical conditions such as asthma, just like in any usual case.
• H1N1 isn't the only disease out there; even if you get the vaccine, you could still get sick.
• In 2001, 62,034 people died from the regular flu, with 983 being 35-44; 1801 being 45-54, and 2704 being 55-64 [American Lung Association].
• From January-April of 2009, more than 13,000 Americans have died of complications from the seasonal flu (not H1N1), according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's weekly report on the causes of death in the nation [from CDCP and CNN.com].
  
• To contrast, only 170 people have died from H1N1 so far in 2009, according to the World Health Organization update 58. There have been 33,902 reported cases.