Some Facts about swine flu or pig flu
This information will provide you some facts about swine flu or pig flu that recently become most killer disease in mexico and in this world today. In our last post we write some tips how to avoid swine flu so please check them for more information. Today disease control experts are still working to find a way in the swine flu epidemic in Mexico and the United States, and suspected cases in this country.
What is swine flu?
Swine flu is a respiratory disease that infect pigs. Caused by influenza type A, outbreaks of disease in pigs occurred regularly with high-level cases but rarely to be fatal. This disease tends to infecting in spring and winter but the cycle is a year-round. There are many types of flu and swine flu in humans as this disease is constantly changing.
Can people infected by swine flu?
Swine flu does not usually creep in humans, although sporadic cases also occur and are usually associated with pigs. Notes on cases of transmission from human to human is also very rare. Human transmission of swine flu in humans is estimated to spread like seasonal flu - through coughing and sneezing. In the present outbreak occurred is not yet clear whether the disease is transmitted from human to human. Symptoms of swine flu in humans appears similar to the symptoms of seasonal human flu.
Is this a new type of swine flu?
The World Health Organization, WHO, confirming that at least some cases is a version of H1N1 influenza A type that never existed. H1N1 is the virus that causes seasonal flu in humans on a regular basis. However, most new versions of H1N1 is different: the virus load is typical of the genetic material found in viruses that infect humans, birds and pigs. Flu virus has the ability to exchange genetic component to one another, and likely a new version of H1N1 is the result of the combination of various different versions of the virus that occurred in one animal source.
Is it safe to eat pork?
There is no evidence of swine flu spread through the consumption of meat of infected animals. However, the meat must be cooked well-done, 70C temperature will kill the virus.
Whether citizens should be worried?
When shown a new type of flu that has the ability to spread from human human authorities mengawai carefully to see if the cause has the potential pandemic. WHO warns of cases in Mexico and the United States can potentially cause a global pandemic and affirm this situation seriously.
However, the WHO says is still too early to assess the situation accurately. Currently, the WHO says the situation is almost approaching the pandemic flu than the years since 1968 - is a three-level ancamannya scale of six. No one knows the impact of pandemic disease fully, but experts warn the victim died can reach millions of people around the world. Spanish flu pandemic, which began in 1819 and also caused by the H1N1 virus, killing millions of people.
The fact that the cases in the United States so far showed symptoms of light is good news. While the outbreaks in Mexico parahnya likely caused by factors that are not always the small possibility that occurred in other regions of the world. However, the fact that most of the young victims of a show that does not baisa. Seasonal flu usually tend to engulf the old age.
How about the treatment and vaccine?
United States government says the two drugs used to treat flu, Tamiflu and Relenza, seems effective in the cases that occurred so far. Uncertain effectiveness of flu vaccine that is now there to protect people from this new virus, because the genetic type of flu is different from the others. United States scientists have developed a new vaccine, but needed time to refine and produces in the amount sufficient to meet demand.
How about the bird flu?
Type of bird flu that causes death in Southeast Asia in recent years is different from the type of flu that is now infecting pigs. New forms of swine flu is a new type of H1N1, while bird flu is H5N1. Experts fear H5N1 as a potential cause pendemi ability bermutasi quickly. Akan but until now the disease is still a bird disease. Those infected are those associated with poultry and cases of transmission from human to human is very rare - there are no signs that H5N1 can spread from human to human easily.