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Swine Flu Part 2
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Some day, people of the world including in Indonesia are upset by a news of the swine flu virus. Wow … I also cringe? While the bird flu have made only yesterday Indonesia panic people, including me. We find out what it is to go ahead swine flu? how it spread? What are the symptoms experienced when exposed to swine flu? and the last is how we do prevention of swine flu virus.
What is swine flu?
Swine flu is a type of influenza caused by H1N1 virus, previously known attack pigs. Swine flu virus H1N1 is the influenza A virus mutation and is usually found in Asia and Europe. How do viruses spread of swine flu? %%art-more%%
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What is a pandemic?
A pandemic is an outbreak of a new infectious disease, which causes serious illness and spreads widely from person to person across more than one geographical region. HIV/Aids can thus be described as a pandemic illness — it emerged to infect many people relatively recently. Cancer cannot: it is not by and large caused by infection, and neither is it new.
How does a pandemic differ from an epidemic?
An epidemic occurs whenever the number of cases of a particular disease exceeds the number that would normally be expected. Epidemics of infectious disease can escalate into pandemics, but do not always do so.
Is swine flu going to cause a pandemic?
Probably. Professor Roy Anderson, a leading epidemiologist who is also Rector of Imperial College, London, said yesterday that he considers a pandemic is already under way — the question that remains is how serious it will be. Many scientists were saying the same thing privately even before the World Health Organisation raised the threat level to phase 5 on Wednesday, indicating that it considers a pandemic to be imminent. %%art-more%%
Who has never been exposed to cold cough? It’s rare that people have immune cough cold. This disease is easy to attack any person, no view of sex and age. Can also come more than once a year, especially in children. For some people, it is even considered a disease which always come every time the season changes occur.
Coughing with a cold is influenza
Cough cold symptoms usually begin 2-3 days after the infection. Very typical symptoms, is sneezing, sneezing, watery nose, nasal congestion, coughing, hoarse voice. Indeed, it can take more than a week. Usually only 2-3 days if symptoms mild, but can be up to 2 weeks when symptoms are severe. However, when more than 2 days cold symptoms have not gone as well, so it is can be allergic to. %%art-more%%
About Influenza
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Influenza virus that can attack all age groups, but the highest numbers of infection, especially among children. While the death rate and the weight of disease occurred in those aged more than 65 years old or patients of certain diseases due to be vulnerable to any infection.
How does the spread of influenza virus and how long its incubation period?
Influenza virus can spread from one person to another person, primarily through coughing or sneezing of an influenza patient.
The period of incubation of this disease is approximately one to four days (average two days). In the adults, have been infected since starting one day before the occurrence of symptoms of influenza until five days after starting it. While children can spread the virus to more than ten days. %%art-more%%
