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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? Will You Get the A(H1N1) Vaccine? Post 302368274 by Corona688 on Wednesday 4th of November 2009 01:00:13 PM

11-04-2009

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This flu has already killed healthy young men in my area. I'm getting it.

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they will also hold back and keep in reserve a batch to treat real genuine cases with, so it's not like this is going to run out anytime soon.

Vaccines are not a treatment! Only a prevention. By the time you get it, it's too late for a vaccine to work! There are a few actual antiviral drugs out there now, like tamaflu, but they are not vaccines.

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I read somewhere some of these vaccines are actually cultured viruses themselves so can cause different side effects in different people.

Derived from cultured viruses. Derived from -- not actual "live" viruses. The point of a vaccine is to present the right immune triggers to your body without actually infecting you. To this end they take the virus and damage it, make it uninfectious.

I'd also add that in considering whether to get the vaccine or not, you should not only consider the danger to yourself of the infection and the (smaller) risks of the vaccine, but the danger you'd represent to others if you got infected. Higher vaccination rates mean much smaller transmission rates, too.

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MAILGRAPH(8)						      System Manager's Manual						      MAILGRAPH(8)

NAME

       mailgraph - daemon which produces graphs of SMTP traffic

SYNOPSIS

       mailgraph [ options ]

DESCRIPTION

       mailgraph  is a daemon which produces mail statistics RRDtool for Postfix and Sendmail. This stats are stored for generating daily, weekly,
       monthly and yearly graphs of sent/received/rejected and bounced/viruses/spam mails.

OPTIONS

       -h, --help
	      Display help and exit.

       -v, --verbose
	      Be verbose about what you do.

       -V, --version
	      Output version information and exit.

       -c, --cat
	      Cause the logfile to be only read and not monitored.

       -l, --logfile file
	       Monitor logfile file instead of /var/log/syslog.

       -t, --logtype type
	      Set logfile's type (default: syslog).

       -y, --year
	      Start year of the log file (default: current year).

       --host=HOST
	      Use only entries for HOST (regexp) in syslog.

       -d, --daemon
	      Start in the background

       --daemon-pid=FILE
	      Write PID to FILE instead of /var/run/mailgraph.pid.

       --daemon-rrd=DIR
	      Write RRDs to DIR instead of /var/lib/mailgraph/.

       --daemon-log=FILE
	      Write verbose-log to FILE instead of /var/log/mailgraph.log.

       --ignore-localhost
	      Ignore mail to/from localhost (used for virus scanner).

       --ignore-host=HOST
	      Ignore mail to/from HOST (used for virus scanner).

       --no-mail-rrd
	      Do not update the mail rrd.

       --no-virus-rrd
	      Do not update the virus rrd.

       --no-greylist-rrd
	      Do not update the greylist rrd.

       --rrd-name=NAME
	      Use NAME.rrd, NAME_virus.rrd and NAME_greylist.rrd for the rrd files.

       --rbl-is-spam
	      Count rbl rejects as spam.

       --virbl-is-virus
	      Count virbl rejects as viruses.

SEE ALSO

       rrdtool(1), RRDs(3pm)

AUTHOR

       David Schweikert <dws@ee.ethz.ch>

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