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by NASH DUNN
News Reporter
by JUSTIN HERBERGER
News Reporter
H1N1 FluMist nasal spray vaccines are currently available at no charge for students on a “first come, first serve basis” at Appalachian State University’s Student Health Services, University Physician Dr. Bob Ellison said Wednesday.
Both the injection and nasal spray are currently available. The injection is recommended for students with underlying medical conditions. The nasal spray is recommended for low-risk students.
Ellison said
the supply is limited due to the fact the process of making and
distributing the vaccine is time consuming for the companies currently
producing it.
The Watauga County
Health Department is responsible for distributing the vaccine to
healthcare providers within the county, including Appalachian Health
Services.
“It is
an issue of supply and distribution at this point,” Ellison said. “We
don’t know if we’re going to get a couple hundred doses every couple of
weeks, or if they’re going to open up the floodgate and send us 5,000
doses.”
The 2009 seasonal flu vaccine is also readily available at Student Health Services and costs $10.
The
Centers for Disease and Control and Prevention(CDC), which produces and
distributes the vaccines, list possible side effects of the Flu Mist
vaccine as runny nose, sore throat, headache and cough.
For more information, contact Student Health Services at 262-3100.
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I just deleted over half of my friends from Facebook. That's because they have all been posting non-stop messages in panic about the Swine Flu after reading the front page of any recent news publication. On one hand I have been looking for an excuse to delete these people (who I never even see or talk to or care about anymore) from my account, but in all reality, how about getting with it, morons?
Seriously, I will be disassociating myself from anyone who spends even a half-minute worrying about this deadly new epidemic called Swine Flu or H1N1. They're like a heard of sheep frolicking to the other side of a field as their shepherd yells wolf. They read or hear from any newsperson about the new recent illnesses that this new flu strain has caused in a region somewhat remotely near to where they live, and freak out. They pull their kids from school, and refuse to even go outside without one of those mouth covers dentists wear. But they all seem to have completely forgotten about something different and far more deadly- the common seasonal flu that kills thousands of people every year, putting it in a playing field far more awesome than the Swine Flu. Take two seconds out of your time and look up the symptoms, mortality rate, and treatment, and it's plain and simple. The Swine Flu and Common Flu will give you the following: fever, sore throat, coughing, runny or stuffy nose, headaches, body aches, chills and fatigue, and possibly vomiting and diarrhea, all according to the CDC.
Before I continue, I will say I consider myself to be a fair person. So, I will point out that the Swine Flu is a completely new strain of the flu. Thus, people's immune systems would not be able to combat the Swine Flu alone, and the recently developed Swine Flu vaccination is not readily available in all places. This basically opens the door for a cheap sucker-punch excuse for news medias to create this overhype. And everybody seems to completely disregard the fact that there are effective medications available to treat Swine Flu (oseltamivir and zanamivir) and the vaccine will soon be more abundant. So, in the unlikely event that a person is to get Swine Flu and has not received the vaccination, simply just seek treatment and get on the proper medication before it gets too excessive, and then the Swine Flu will simply just pass on by. But until then, quit the worrying!
Now, I think it is quite obvious as you people will read this, that you will wonder just what kind of a person I am. Well, I won't get into super specifics, but I will say that as far as I go, I have absolutely nothing in my life to worry about and I never will. If I did however, Swine Flu would be the last concern on my mind. There are things of much higher priority to worry about. They include: dying frail fragile and alone, not becoming the ruler of the universe, living in a boring day-to-day lifestyle, and marriage.
And just to be clear with what I mean by marriage... never getting married is not what a person should be worried about; getting married is. Tons of people (in fear they might die frail, fragile, and alone) will marry some loser because they think they will never meet anyone better. When in reality, they probably will never meet anyone better, but even still, even marrying a person who isn't a completely worthless will ruin everything for a person because marriage is nothing more than a phony human created institution that people view as an expected lifestyle norm they must achieve. When a person gets married, they may live everyday comfortably feeling they have a safety net from dying alone when they reach 75. However, they always under-look today, as in today, right now, in which they are most indefinitely living in a crappy day-to-day boring miserable lifestyle. They will never achieve what should be every person's ultimate goal of dominating the world. So unless you plan on marrying someone simply to have a social tool by your side on your quest to rule, then save the thousands of dollars on the enormous fifty layer cake and the after wedding party and buy a jaguar. Not the fancy overpriced car, but the vicious oversized cat you will need to have on a leash as you make your way down the street as you set out to conquer.
My ultimate point is to quit closing schools, quit washing your hands two hundred times per day at this over exaggerated and over reported H1N1 virus, and instead, walk out onto the street, pull down some swine flu paranoid freak's cotton mouth cover, and spit in their face as you make your way forward on your quest to rule.