It depends, you'd have to ask the person executing the vaccination whether or not the microbial agent(s) are Live, Dead, or Inactivated.

That's very good of the school. In case of an emergency of sorts, the parents can let each other know what the emergency is and what the best way is to act.

I just hope that the list does not get into the wrong hands.

You're right, the precautions are very sensible. In the big city where I live the precautions include not giving out personal information of members of an organization. I guess the area where you live has a more trusting population, fewer crazies and more sensible-minded people.

I've read that if we use the hand sanitizers more then 2 times, it just becomes layers of it and the bacteria will actually stick to our hands. The article said that for every 2 times we use the sanitizer, we need to use soap and water 1 time.

The parents have their own individual access codes to get onto the school site. It's great for when the kids need a number to call someone to ask about homework or just invite to do something. The teacher's home phone numbers are there too.

I can go on that site and find out my child's grades before I pick my child up from school. lol I can see when the sport's practices are and the games too. Teachers email me on there.

I live in a city but the school isn't a large one and it's a private school. There's only 500 children.

It bothers me that there's nothing on the school site telling us about the child with the swine flu. It makes me wonder how many others are infected.

Alcohol based hand sanitizers usually contain inactive ingredients that deter layers of residue from building up in the palms of our hands. It also depends on the amount of Alcohol rub one is applying on their hands.

Oh yes. Please. Let's everyone use all kinds of sanitizers and anti bacterial stuff so that those nasty little bugs get a chance to build up a resistance to them.

Let's just keep interfering with nature and not allow our bodies to build up it's own defenses against invasive bacteria.

That way, nature will eventually come up with a bug that is completely immune to all the drugs or bug killing stuff that we have and wipe out a giant portion of the population.

Then, guess what.

The only people left will be the " stupid " ones who didn't use all those nifty little bug killers that so many scientists keep saying are the only way we'll survive.

Brilliant idea.

Anyone every heard of Drug Resistant Staphylococcus??? I hear it's all the rage in hospitals these days.

calm down people. the swine flu won't kill you.

Not true. It will kill some. Maybe a few more than the regular strain of flu.

Yeah, it is called MRSA, it is all over the place. They classify it by wound MRSA, Respiratory MRSA, MRSA of the urine etc. I have to be careful all the time I am a nurse. I always take precautions no matter what. Trying doing a blood draw with a MRSA patient

But that's the point.

MRSA came about because they kept coming up with different, stronger drugs to try and get rid of it.

It's backfired and made things even worse now.

This whole deal with the Swine Flu wouldn't be nearly as big a problem as it has the potential to be if people hadn't been convinced over the years that they have to be germophobic.

Germs and bacteria, other than stuff like E Coli and a few others, rarely actually kill people. But the way things have gone over the last couple of decades, people have become totally convinced that even the bugs that cause the common cold are completely deadly and should be feared.

i thought it would only be considered dangerous to the very young, the very elderly, and people with immune system complications....which I'm assuming isn't the majority of this forum. Although I really don't know how bad this flu season will be.

Although it will effect those groups more seriously than others, Swine Flu still has the potential to kill people outside of those groups as well.

The swine flu has already killed many people worldwide.
I was in Mexico when it first started as a world threat.
There are articles about it daily.

Thats just wonderful. I'm not leaving my house now

I think you almost have to take those reports with a grain of salt considering the state of medical care available in Mexico.

I would be willing to bet that in this country, there really won't be that many deaths.

There were I read as much as I could after I returned to the US because I was there when people first became infected. Even in countries like Mexico they must take blood samples from suspected victims of swine flu. All the big organizations including our own CDC always become involved if they believe a given disease can spread.

But even the CDC can only do so much given the conditions they are dealing with in Mexico and other countries with substandard health care.

While the health care might be relatively good in a place like Mexico City, out in the outlying areas, the quality of care isn't nearly as good.

The last I heard, they were not going to vaccinate the people over 65 years old against the swine flu as there aren't many in that age range getting it and they believe that they may have been exposed years ago, in their youth, and built up some natural antibodies against it.

As far as drug resistance, it is scary. There are drug resistant strains of TB, some hepatitis strains, and others that are becoming "super bugs" from years and years of overexposure to antibiotics when not necessary and they have mutated.

I feel the urge to go hug my Pot-belly pigs now. I'm so sick to death of it all. When death tolls start hitting 50,000, then get back with me. We're no where near what the regular flu does death-toll-wise.