tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6125857314165645951.post2370973990659148168..comments2024-02-10T00:21:20.822-08:00Comments on The Gigamole Diaries: H1N1 - How do we know vaccines are effective and safe?gigamolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18328852130774608540noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6125857314165645951.post-9452536543023928612009-06-14T20:18:00.670-07:002009-06-14T20:18:00.670-07:00The problem with H1N1 is that the incubation perio...The problem with H1N1 is that the incubation period is a couple days, so the first few days, of infection is symptom free. By the time fever etc appears and detectable by thermal scanner, patient already infected for a couple days and have potential spread.gigamolehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18328852130774608540noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6125857314165645951.post-50478599881576315822009-06-14T19:48:17.190-07:002009-06-14T19:48:17.190-07:00I'm not sure I want to be vaccinated with a va...I'm not sure I want to be vaccinated with a vaccine that's just been rushed to market.<br /><br />However, I wonder whether we do enough in S'pore to detect and protect? Esp at the airport. Are the part-time fresh hires manning the scanners up to their job? How come so many are getting thru becos they have no fever and then develop the H1N1 thingie thereafter?auntieluciahttp://singaporegirl.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6125857314165645951.post-66072092788215709742009-06-13T17:06:05.042-07:002009-06-13T17:06:05.042-07:00yeah.... :)
but cost benefits are really difficul...yeah.... :)<br /><br />but cost benefits are really difficult to assess in situations like these. On one hand, there is the immediate 'feel protected', 'I have done something about it ' factor, and on the other, the possibility of delayed toxicity (say autism or some debillitating neuopathic degeneration) which nobody may be able to prove and which will become somebody else's public health problem.<br /><br />What would you do if you were a public health officer making the decision? <br /><br />http://gigomole.blogspot.com/2009/05/swine-flu-missed-opportunity-to-build.htmlgigamolehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18328852130774608540noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6125857314165645951.post-30293727798421913412009-06-13T07:30:31.591-07:002009-06-13T07:30:31.591-07:00may be the actual virus is safer....:)may be the actual virus is safer....:)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com