whoa, how to manage this since my restaurant always very crowded with customers.
very worried now. hope the government bans all flights from north america
with this crisis, i dont know why they dont ban u.s. flights since there was a swine flu death there
http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking+News/Singapore/Story/STIStory_371613.html
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May 2, 2009
Hospitals vaccinating staff
By Salma Khalik, Health Correspondent
About 400 healthcare workers at the hospital have been vaccinated over the past few days, and more will get the jab in coming days. --PHOTO: AP
HOSPITALS have started vaccinating their front line staff against the seasonal flu.
The vaccination is unlikely to give much protection against the new influenza A H1N1 strain, but it will
stop 'background noise', or undue worry caused by them catching a normal flu.
This is especially since Singapore is heading into its usual mid-year flu peak. About 600 people die of the seasonal flu here each year.
About 400 healthcare workers at the hospital have been vaccinated over the past few days, and more will get the jab in coming days.
Other frontline essential personnel, such as the police and immigration officers, will also be vaccinated. The Health Ministry has a roll-out plan for who gets these jabs.
Dr Leo Yee Sin, head of the Communicable Diseases Centre at the Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH) said that it would be a good idea for people to get vaccinated. Such action would reduce the load on hospitals from patients with the seasonal flu.
At a press conference on Saturday, Dr Leo, an infectious diseases expert, said it was the unpredictability of the new Influenza A H1N1 strain that has the experts worried.
At this point, one of three things could happen, she said.
One, it could simply fizzle out quickly with the virus becoming just another strain of flu. Or, it could follow the 1918 Spanish pandemic pattern with a mild first wave followed a year later by a virulent second wave.
A third possibility is that it could 'blow up' suddenly, should the virus pick up other genes along the way and become more deadly.
Read the full report in The Sunday Times.
very worried now. hope the government bans all flights from north america
with this crisis, i dont know why they dont ban u.s. flights since there was a swine flu death there
http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking+News/Singapore/Story/STIStory_371613.html
Home > Breaking News > Singapore > Story
May 2, 2009
Hospitals vaccinating staff
By Salma Khalik, Health Correspondent
About 400 healthcare workers at the hospital have been vaccinated over the past few days, and more will get the jab in coming days. --PHOTO: AP
HOSPITALS have started vaccinating their front line staff against the seasonal flu.
The vaccination is unlikely to give much protection against the new influenza A H1N1 strain, but it will
stop 'background noise', or undue worry caused by them catching a normal flu.
This is especially since Singapore is heading into its usual mid-year flu peak. About 600 people die of the seasonal flu here each year.
About 400 healthcare workers at the hospital have been vaccinated over the past few days, and more will get the jab in coming days.
Other frontline essential personnel, such as the police and immigration officers, will also be vaccinated. The Health Ministry has a roll-out plan for who gets these jabs.
Dr Leo Yee Sin, head of the Communicable Diseases Centre at the Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH) said that it would be a good idea for people to get vaccinated. Such action would reduce the load on hospitals from patients with the seasonal flu.
At a press conference on Saturday, Dr Leo, an infectious diseases expert, said it was the unpredictability of the new Influenza A H1N1 strain that has the experts worried.
At this point, one of three things could happen, she said.
One, it could simply fizzle out quickly with the virus becoming just another strain of flu. Or, it could follow the 1918 Spanish pandemic pattern with a mild first wave followed a year later by a virulent second wave.
A third possibility is that it could 'blow up' suddenly, should the virus pick up other genes along the way and become more deadly.
Read the full report in The Sunday Times.
