Swine flu concerns

[Big J]

With all of this news surrounding swine flu I am worried about my mom.  They are starting to shut schools down here in Dallas.  I have not heard about any precautions that nursing homes are taking but I hope they have increased their sanitary and hygiene practices. 

For the latest update on the outbreak check out the CDC (Center for Disease Control) website http://www.cdc.gov/swineflu/

[smittyjones11]

I've heard that this strain of the flu does not neccessarily target older people so I hope that my mom will be fine.  There is so much noise and misinformation in the new right now though it is hard to separate fact from fiction.  In fact my coworker told me yesterday that "they" are saying you should try to catch the swine flu now so that you body will be immune when a more deadly strain appears. 

[Vega]

Did the nursing home not administer vaccines for their residents? Usually the elderly and young children are at the top of the list to receive vaccines as our health care workers which I would assume includes anyone who works in a nursing home. My family and I got ours in the fall because we were considered at high risk.

[cadee]

I think the "swine flu" is far overrated. Considering 33,000 people die every year from the regular flu. While I understand this is a new virus, there are antibiotics available to help treat this. Just like the regular flu, it's not curable. I understand the need for concern, but people are taking this way out of proportion.

[abrillgreen]

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[rock]

I'm not to worried yet. But whats scary is that I just read that Mexico is losing 57 million dollars a day because tourist wont go there. Which means that jobs will be lost. So where will they go for jobs? You bet, America. Is this going to make for a mass invasion of illegal immigrants? Once that happens, how many will bring the flu with them? HHMMM!

[himani]

Try to avoid shake hands and hugs with your friends and relatives!

[messa]

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[newgold]

Swine influenza was first proposed to be a disease related to human influenza during the 1918 flu pandemic, when pigs became sick at the same time as humans.The first identification of an influenza virus as a cause of disease in pigs occurred about ten years later, in 1930. For the following 60 years, swine influenza strains were almost exclusively H1N1. Then, between 1997 and 2002, new strains of three different subtypes and five different genotypes emerged as causes of influenza among pigs in North America. In 1997–1998, H3N2 strains emerged. These strains, which include genes derived by reassortment from human, swine and avian viruses, have become a major cause of swine influenza in North America. Reassortment between H1N1 and H3N2 produced H1N2. In 1999 in Canada, a strain of H4N6 crossed the species barrier from birds to pigs, but was contained on a single farm.

[senorita]

Swine flu is an infection caused by a virus. It's named for a virus that pigs can get. People do not normally get swine flu, but human infections can and do happen. The virus is contagious and can spread from human to human. Symptoms of swine flu in people are similar to the symptoms of regular human flu and include fever, cough, sore throat, body aches, headache, chills and fatigue.

[stela]

Wash your hands regularly and cleanly! Try to avoid shake hands and hugs with your friends and relatives!

[kevinchaapel]

At first, people thought that it was much worse than the typical seasonal flu, when in fact, it came at us unexpectedly and we just didn’t have the vaccines to prevent it. Swine influenza virus was first isolated from pigs in 1930 in the U.S. and has been recognized by pork producers and veterinarians to cause infections in pigs worldwide. In a number of instances, people have developed the swine flu infection when they are closely associated with pigs It has two genes from flu viruses that normally circulate in pigs in Europe and Asia and bird (avian) genes and human genes.

[johnandle]

hello

As a swine flue concern, we must take some preventions as:
we must cover our mouth and nose at the time of coughing and sneezing, and used tissue must throw away quickly and carefully.


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