If someone had ''a mild version of the swine flu''. Is it safe to be around them?

No, RUN!

From what I’ve heard there is nothing dangerous about it if you just treat it like the flu.

If you believe that a person can be “slightly” pregnant then you can believe that. It isn’t how they are handing it, the risk is how you will handle it if you catch it from them.

My son was told that he could return to Summer Camp 24 hours after his temperature returned to normal.

I’ve been around folks who had actual swine flu, were quarantined (at Carnegie Mellon,) and then released after recovery. No one they’ve been around since has caught it. It should be fine. It’s not particularly dangerous to the sick person, it’s only dangerous because it has the potential to change quickly and become wide spread.

…this narrative on MarketWatch was interesting.

@pdworkin And he had swine flu?
They knew she was sick this past friday, And now she say that she is recovering and a little weak, not sure what to do..

If she is past the fever it is unlikely she is very contagious, but you could wait a day or two more if she is worried.

Here’s the thing no one has the FLU for two days and starts to get better like that. Unless she started getting sick before that? FLU is you cannot move for at least 4 days, I mean hard to drag your body to pee when you need to. High fever, especially in children, usually 102 and higher.

@JLeslie Some people get very light symptoms.

At my daughter’s summer camp a number of kids came down with the flu all at the same time (including my daughter). All but two were tested for H1N1 (the so-called “Swine Flu” and one of the two not tested was my daughter so we still don’t know if she had it or not) and it came back that about half had H1N1 and the other just “flu.” After five days in the infirmary all the kids were able to mingle back with the other campers and there were no more cases of flu for the rest of the session, which went on two more weeks.

Tell her to carry and use hand sanitizer and she should be okay.

From the CDC:
People infected with seasonal and 2009 H1N1 flu shed virus and may be able to infect others from 1 day before getting sick to 5 to 7 days after. This can be longer in some people, especially children and people with weakened immune systems and in people infected with the new H1N1 virus.

More details
http://www.cdc.gov/H1N1flu/qa.htm

Ask you doctor for a definitive answer. We can give you our opinion, bue very few Fluther members are doctors, and those who are will not give you a “medical” diagnosis.

is that the same as a mild case of herpes? hmm I’d keep my distance

I have heard that 24 hours after a fever, the flu is no longer contagious—it’s probably more contagious before someone shows symptoms. But, if anyone is concerned, called the zillions of people who must be manning phones to answer your question officially. Since the disease is so mild now, it might be better to get it now than later, when it might come back somewhat mutated and far more dangerous. Although, the flu is the flu, and it’s never fun. And I have zero medical knowledge about this disease.

There is no mild version as long as the virus remains the same. There are mild or severe courses of the disease. So, it’s not safe to be around infected people, especially when you shake their hands or take a shower of droplets while they are sneezing or drink from the same cups or glasses. If you are healthy and you catch the virus you will most likely face a mild course of the disease. The virus still hasn’t mutated into something more dangerous, but the potential is there.

In September 2009 there were 18000 cases of swine flu in Germany. So far there’s one death of a woman, a chain smoker and heavily overweight (180 kg).

@mattbrowne makes a good point, the flu was mild in that child, but it doesn’t mean someone who catches it from her won’t be more sick, because it depends on the individuals immune system. Even though the child is getting better, and I do tend to think it is safe to be around the child at this point, the parents might be just about to come down with it, so they could be shedding lots of virus because they could be in the 24 hour before symptoms occur phase.

If your mom goes tell her not to touch her face, this is the most significant thing, because even if she washes her hands if she touches a door nob a minute later and then wipes her eye, the virus can enter the body. If it were me, but I am a little phobic about getting sick (not really phobic, maybe paranoid is a better word, I don’t think I am going to die, I just spent a lot of years chronically ill and I don’t want to give one more day of my life to illness if I can help it, not even for a cold) I would wait two days to feel sure no one else in the house is getting it.