an open discussion about H1N1 and how it effects people's plan on Travelling.
Hellooo All;
I think all of us are aware about the new disease which is travelling around the world H1N1 flu !! Most of the world countries has been effected and soon all of it.
But the question is; will you cancel your plans /trips because of this disease ?! Are you scared / worried to be effected while travelling? Yes or No please tell us Why ?
Hope to hear from you 😊
Reply to this Is that the same as
Swine Flu?
No, this wont put me off travelling. I am not scared, because it is according to experts
not as dangerous as many think.
The only real worries I have, are that there will be over reacting airport staff causing delays and hassles because of the flu.
Mel
Reply to this No, it didn't, and it won't stop me from making travel plans.
Reply to this I'm not scared of it but I was confined to bed at the beginning of the month because of a very very bad flu (apparently not the H1N1) ... July had been pretty much quiet for me ... yes, it stopped me, big time!
Bummer.
All well now ... travel plans is on 😊
Reply to this For me, there is a simple rule...if you have fever...you don't show up on a plane, irrelevant of the virus you may or may not have.
Back in May, I was in the lounge of a hotel and witnessed an impressive case. The virus just started to spread around Mexico. We were in Phuket, Thailand. A dutch guy wanted to changed flights for his family by 48 hours...to fly earlier...he wanted to fly ONLY on a 747, on the top of the plane, on Malaysian airline...and he pointed to the concierge...if the top floor is business, buy four tickets business, if it's first, buy four one way first.
He ended up in first, and the concierge told him it would be around 6700euros...that's to fly 48 hours earlier...at a stage where the only cases where in Mexico...think they just had the first one in HK.
So if you want my opinion...some people have to much money to simply be crazy.
Would I change my plans, yes if somebody in my family has fever...if not, no way...I was all over the world during the SARS...and it was not a problem either.
Reply to this No, it didn't - I've just been to China and no it won't in the future. The panic over H1N1 caused delays in getting through immigration control but that's a minor problem.
Reply to this I have just been informed that H1N1 is bird flu, rather than swine flu. Apparently they are both strains of the same virus. Bird flu did not put me off travelling either.
Reply to this Did not put us off and would not either - you could catch it at home or on the road so why stop traveling? Oddly enough for us there was a bigger chance of catching this when we got back home. So, we should have used that as excuse to extend our travels LOL!
Reply to this Hello All;
Is that the same as Swine Flu?
Mell; After going through the links you have provided me,, Yes it's the same, it's also known as Pig flu. i thought iam the first one who opned this topic for dicussion 😉
If you have fever...you don't show up on a plane, irrelevant of the virus you may or may not have.
PA Leslise; Actually you dont have to have flu to get it,, you might be well and everything is okay,, but if someone else have it then you can get it.
you could catch it at home or on the road
Rob_n_lorenza; Very true, but at home you know the good hospitals and where to go for treatment, but while in travelling, you might be travelling some where that there is no hospital or good medical treatment.
Okay, Another question here;
Do you guys think the media is just making things bigger ?!
Reply to this Do you guys think the media is just making things bigger ?!
Not really. But everything that the media brings attention to seems bigger then what it does not bring attention to. Many people only pay attention to what is the headline news and not any attention to all the other information available. Those who read a lot about health and diseases probably dont think this flu is so big because they are looking at it from a broader prespective.
Reply to this Many people only pay attention to what is the headline news and not any attention to all the other information available
Yes Mell, Very True. This is how rumors starts, they will read the half of the story and skip the other half 😊
Reply to this True, but does anyone else think that after the dud that h5n1 (bird flu) turned out to be, that the governments are hyping it up even more to shift the stockpiles of tammiflu and relenza that conveniently also work for swine flu.
Im not saying that the whole thing is just a big conspiracy type thing (personally i dont have time for them) but it just seems a bit convenient that the drugs produced to combat bird flu also both work against swine flu, it could be that the media and governments are blowing it up further to rid themselves of drugs that probably wont work for any other outbreaks.
After all these drugs arent that cheap and the UK alone bought enough for about half the population.
Personally Im not too worried about the whole thing being young fit and healthy and all that. But the dangerous thing is that a flu strain like this was allowed to emerge, bad hygiene and farm standards led to the cross contamination of the strains of human and bird flu that incubated in the swine. I think we've been fortunate that this seems to be quite a mild strain of the virus.
Even so, basic things like washing your hands and covering your mouth when you sneeze or cough can prevent the spread of any flu. So i dont think it will stop me traveling a greater danger for me is the lack of money in my account and im still waiting for the government to do something about that.
Reply to this True, but does anyone else think that after the dud that h5n1 (bird flu) turned out to be, that the governments are hyping it up even more to shift the stockpiles of tammiflu and relenza that conveniently also work for swine flu.
Dont know if it is the governments that would be doing it, but the drugs industry is big business..... I dont think we need nearly as much medication as some doctors and the rest of the medical profession lead us to believe.
I am frequently shocked by how much medication my daughters doctor prescribes for just about everything. If my daughter has the flu there are often 5 different drugs prescribed for her. I avoid doctors and medical professionals as much as reasonably possible, mostly because of this. One time I was worried in case my daughter had something like Malaria instead of the flu, so I asked a doctor to take a look. It was just a regular flu, but this doctor insisted that I give my daughter 4 types of drugs and visit another doctor after the weekend for a check up. I decided to not pump all those drugs into my daughter if she does not have a killer disease like Malaria. After the weekend I took her to the childrens doctor for the checkup and asked about the drugs the other doctor prescribed. I wanted to know which ones are actually necessary if any. This doctor threw the prescription in the garbage and wrote out a different one with different drugs on it. An anti biotic, a pain killer, an anti fever drug and another. As far as I know flus are caused by a virus, so an anti biotic wont do anything against them.
Well, the bottom line is that I would not put it past the drugs companies and the medical profession to be feeding the media an inbalanced amount of information about bird flu and swine flu in order to promote their drugs. Maybe not a conspiracy, but......
Reply to this Airlines have began to take steps to prevent fliers from contracting Swine Flu including offering passengers anti-bacterial wipes, equipping flights with masks for passengers who might become sick, and keeping blankets and pillows off planes. In my opinion, it is more than just hype and is also better to be safe than sorry. I am following all normal flu precautions such as washing my hands, sneezing in my sleeves, and keeping antibacterial spray on me at all times. I am also considering investing in respirators to further ease my mind while traveling abroad.
Reply to this I just came back last Sunday from a car trip to the Baltic countries (Estonia,
Latvia and Lithuania).
I & wife did discuss the possibility of catching the swine flu on the road but
it didn't make us postpone the trip, neither have the SARS or bird flu scares in
recent years.
As a matter of fact I did fall sick on Tuesday with flu symptoms but am 95% ok
now so it probably wasn't swine flu.
Reply to this Did you ever go back and get tested? The majority of the flu virus that is going around is H1N1, and Swine flu has many of the same symptoms as the seasonal flu.
Reply to this Don't they have like people who monitors people that are coming from other countries in airports and ship docks? When I came back from travel there were heat sensors and a lot of medical people looking at people in the airport, specially from flights coming from Mexico..
Reply to this Don't they have like people who monitors people that are coming from other countries in airports and ship docks?
Yes, they do. I think some countries are just putting on a show, about how careful they are, rather than acutally doing any real monitoring. But, that is a good thing in my opinion, because if they were to quarantine people for having symptoms such as above average temperature, or cough it would be a real pain for many of us who want to get on with our travelling and are stuck at some hospital or clinic for sneezing at the airport or whatever.
Reply to this Well, the buzz and fuzz about it is not as much as it started breaking out. are you guys still worrying about it? I barely hear any news about it anymore....
Reply to this i'm not as worried about it. i have made it this far without getting the swine flu, so that means i'm doing something right. I'm more concerned about things like catching a cold, or getting strep throat while i travel.
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