This is the kind of shot that maybe discomforting at first but is all worth the pain. A flu shot. A vaccine against the Influenza virus.
I have been invited to a Flu Awareness Seminar and I’d like to share 10 things about Flu that I learned from the talk by Dr. Ruby Dizon of Sanofi Pasteur.
- Cannot be treated with antibiotics – Flu is a viral infection, antibiotics are for bacterial infection hence, antiobiotics are not effective for flu.
- Influenza is a respiratory virus but it is different from the common cold virus.
- There are three types of flu - Type A (serious, most common), B, and C (avian).
- The flu last for about 3-5 days, which can develop to more sever symptoms like pneumonia, dehydration, ear infection, etc.
- In the Philippines, flu is most common during the rainy season or between June to August and colder months from December to February.
- A vaccine is effective for about a year. If you plan to get it, better to have it on March when the new vaccines for the new strain has been prepared. Having flu shots on March will cover both the rainy and cold months for the new strain.
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WORDCAMP PHILIPPINES 2008
And now, finally, it’s WordCamp! Straight from a night’s full of work, I headed to College of Saint Benilde early Saturday (9/6) to meet my fellow Campers.
I was a bit apprehensive because I am not a type of person who socialize so much. But when I arrived there, my fellow WordPress users in the blogging community were so warm and their joyful dispositions are contagious. Minutes after I arrived, I met Eric (Byahilo) and had breakfast with him, even if it’s the first time we’ve met, and Dante (Dukeward). Further during the day, a number more of people became ‘more familiar’. They were my plurk buddies’ plurk buddy or they were, after all, ‘the person behind the blog’ that I am a fan of.
Putting faces into the names made the world more friendly and small. All of a sudden, they seem to be friends from way back and as if it was not the first time we’ve met each other.
Series of talks were held during the day but it was Matt Mullenweg’s (Mr. WordPress himself) that made the house rock. Of course, topics about WordPress, both future and feature are, without a doubt the main course of the day.
I was in awe. Knowing that in front of me is a guy who can be the next Bill Gates, I can’t help but notice how this young, soft spoken man had changed the word and the world from his talent and dedication by developing a free “state-of-the-art publishing platform” that is WordPress.
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