We need your help: Terrible Flu arrives earlier than cyclone
Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2008 3:13 pm
Now I'm going to tell you something that is happening among us. Since 3 days ago, a terrible flu broke out among the Chinese students studying Spanish in the town of Cojimar. Last night, more than 50 of 121 were affected by the flu and 30 of them were isolated because their syndromes were more serious, and the number decreased to 25 by the time I write this thread.
Our syndrome are different. Some have serious headache, some have ache in their throat, and some don't feel well in their stomach. But we do have something in common: We all have fevers. My temperature is 37.3 degrees centigrade last night, but the temperature of some student was as high as 39 degrees last night.
As to me, Yesterday I had headache, but now my headache stops, instead, I have ache around my left eye and the pain makes me drop tears. I don't have more syndrome now. I believe that I'm feeling better gradually.
But why did this disease spread so rapidly? We now have two hipotesis, I'm asking help in order to know our hipotesis are right or no.
- Some students believe that the high frequency of the vaccine that we had last month destroyed our immune system. Last month, the Cubans in the school gave us totally 9 different kinds of vaccines in 30 days. The last 2 vaccines were given simultaneously. Meanwhile, our immune system got no chance to have a rest, because of so many vaccines, and what's more, we often stayed up talking with our families in China due to time difference.
- Some believe, as they said that they consulted someone who studies biology, that theoretically, a virus cannot spread that fast, they believe that we had somehow used infected knife and folk, due to their failure to wash them well, when we have dinners (we have dinners in dining hall and the knife and folks are offered and washed by the Cubans).
Despite that we enjoy free medical care here in Cuba, I'm asking for another help because we doubt the method the Cubans adopt to cure us. For example, for those who were isolated, the Cuban nurses refused to offer medicines to the students whose temperature was lower than 38 degrees centigrade. We wonder if this kind of medical care is correct.
I hope that friends with good medical knowledge would help us answer this questions and give us some suggestions to follow in order to allow us to feel better and get rid of the flu as soon as possible.
wyq614 in Cojimar, Cuba.
Our syndrome are different. Some have serious headache, some have ache in their throat, and some don't feel well in their stomach. But we do have something in common: We all have fevers. My temperature is 37.3 degrees centigrade last night, but the temperature of some student was as high as 39 degrees last night.
As to me, Yesterday I had headache, but now my headache stops, instead, I have ache around my left eye and the pain makes me drop tears. I don't have more syndrome now. I believe that I'm feeling better gradually.
But why did this disease spread so rapidly? We now have two hipotesis, I'm asking help in order to know our hipotesis are right or no.
- Some students believe that the high frequency of the vaccine that we had last month destroyed our immune system. Last month, the Cubans in the school gave us totally 9 different kinds of vaccines in 30 days. The last 2 vaccines were given simultaneously. Meanwhile, our immune system got no chance to have a rest, because of so many vaccines, and what's more, we often stayed up talking with our families in China due to time difference.
- Some believe, as they said that they consulted someone who studies biology, that theoretically, a virus cannot spread that fast, they believe that we had somehow used infected knife and folk, due to their failure to wash them well, when we have dinners (we have dinners in dining hall and the knife and folks are offered and washed by the Cubans).
Despite that we enjoy free medical care here in Cuba, I'm asking for another help because we doubt the method the Cubans adopt to cure us. For example, for those who were isolated, the Cuban nurses refused to offer medicines to the students whose temperature was lower than 38 degrees centigrade. We wonder if this kind of medical care is correct.
I hope that friends with good medical knowledge would help us answer this questions and give us some suggestions to follow in order to allow us to feel better and get rid of the flu as soon as possible.
wyq614 in Cojimar, Cuba.