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%%

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%%