Today about the swine flu did not hear the lazy. The A / H1N1 virus in popularity in the black ranking eclipsed the global financial crisis, they are already frightened by unrelated children, they speak every corner. What do we need to know about this exotic disease?
What is swine flu
Our site must say that the swine flu itself is known to the doctors have already been relatively long - more than twenty years. The world has known and widely used drugs from this disease - Amantadine, Zanyvir, Omeltamivir and Rimantadine. But the Mexican variety of swine flu has become a surprise for doctors. Mutating, swine flu has acquired immunity to the medicines known to us, has become more dangerous and cunning. At the moment there are no well-known effective drugs against the Mexican variety of swine flu air A / H1N1.
To date, the flu virus A / H1N1 has acquired the greatest distribution in his homeland - in Mexico and the USA. Here, the number of infected grows in geometric progression and together with Canada exceeded 30,000 people. They suffer from this disease and residents of neighboring countries - Brazil and Argentina - the first disturbing calls are already beginning to appear here. Among European countries, the virus received the greatest distribution in Spain and the UK. Single cases of pig influenza infection are recorded in other countries of Europe and Asia.
Pandemic is scary?
Just the other day - June 11 - the World Health Organization assigned a swine flu with a sixth degree of threat from six possible. This means that now the A / H1N1 virus is officially recognized as the first pandemic for forty years. The last pandemic before this was the epidemic of Hong Kong flu, which was killed about 34 thousand people. Pork flu today killed 145 people all over the world.
Pandemic differs from the epidemic primarily, the territory of distribution. If the epidemic covered most of the state, as well as neighboring and distant states, it is called a pandemic. The most dangerous and cruel pandemic of influenza in the history of mankind was in 1918-1919. Then from the new disease, the so-called «Spanish» Killed by approximate estimates (the exact number of dead, given the huge coverage of the disease, at that time it was impossible) about 30 million people, including the star of Russian silent movie Vera Cold.
Despite the fact that in the countries of the former USSR, the cases of infection with swine flu are single, and on the border there are strict control and verification of people who arrived from dangerous geographic areas, you will certainly be accompanied by some precautions. First of all, of course, it is worth avoiding trips to Latin America and China. In addition, it is worth avoiding contact with people who arrived from this region. The swine flu virus at an infected person can manifest itself within seven days, so that this period you need to withstand before contacting foreigners and people who arrived from abroad. In addition, doctors recommend excluding any contacts with people having signs of respiratory disease. You should also wash your hands with soap, apply all means to increase the body's immune protection.
Swine flu is practically not transmitted to man from the animal, and thermal processing of meat reduces the chances of an evil virus to zero. Therefore, you can boldly eat pig meat and birds. The main thing is that it was fresh, high quality and not raw.
According to doctors, in the summer period, a much more likelihood to pick up an intestinal infection from meat than influenza. Therefore, our site strongly recommends that you avoid using meat products prepared in all sorts of stalls, tents and eatery.
For prevention purposes
Do not panicly afraid of this disease. To acquire exotic consoles, the flu remains flu, and people with high immunity have every chance of relatively easy to cope with the disease. Exercise, spend more time in the fresh air, consume a lot of fluids - doctors recommend drinking tea with rosehip, raspberry or lemon, simple water, but not carbonated and alcoholic beverages. Strengthen your body, and the disease will definitely go to you.
Are there any vaccine?
Today, vaccine from the strain of pork influenza A / H1N1 does not exist. In China, the clinical trials created by local vaccine doctors are held. About a month later, if everything goes well, the vaccination of the population of this Eastern country will begin. Then, perhaps, drugs will go to hospitals around the world.
But it is not necessary to despair, according to the director of the Research Institute of Virology, RAMN Dmitry Lvov, existing vaccines from simple flu, if they do not prevent the likelihood of a disease to overseas disease, then significantly reduce the risk of obtaining severe consequences from the disease. These vaccines contain the H1N1 component, which is part of swine flu.
Symptoms of swine flu
Pork flu is manifested in the same way as the usual virus. The temperature has sharply climb, headaches begin, muscular pain, cough, vomiting, diarrhea and runny nose. When these symptoms appear, you should immediately consult a doctor and maximize contacts with people around you.
Remember that the risk group primarily includes people with a weak immunity - old people and children, and the main danger of new influenza is a high speed of distribution. Therefore, if you have already felt bad, try to save from the illness of your loved ones.
