- How the infection spreads from bird pork?
Exactly like the spread of human influenza infection:
- By an infected person.
- Through contact with things that touch them the infected person and then touching your eye or mouth or nose .. So it is important to stress washing hands.
- As transmitted through the air by coughing or sneezing without covering the nose or mouth.
- And moves from person to person without that there will be direct contact with pigs.
- Is there a cure for swine flu?
Swine flu drugs are sensitive to anti-avian influenza viruses, and is recommended for treatment of swine influenza in kind. In order to be effective the drug must be taken within 48 hours of onset of symptoms .. But not all people need these drugs have cured cases in the United States without treatment.
- Is there a preventive vaccination against swine influenza virus’s New?
No, where I took the World Health Organization and Centers reduction and prevention of diseases of America (CDC), the first steps to achieve this facsimiles but it will take months (approximately six months).
- Does the Vaksin human influenza prevention of swine flu?
No, because the swine flu virus currently circulating is a new mutated strain, and facsimiles available dedicated to only specific strain of human influenza virus.
- What about eating pork, is it safe?
Indeed, it is transmitted by eating pork or foods that contain it, if settled under the temperature 71 degrees Celsius (160 degrees Fahrenheit), which kills the virus.
- What about the swine flu epidemic earlier?
There were epidemics and outbreaks in the past, In 1976 the disease has spread among American soldiers and lasted for a month and disappeared in mystery as it appears. The wounded nearly 240 people, but the deaths were for one person only.
The strain was prevalent at the time was (H1N1), which is the same strain that caused the epidemic in 1918 to 1919 and resulted in the deaths of tens of millions.
As a result, the virus reemerged in 1976, the fastest Vaksin scientists to work for fear of outbreak of the epidemic again, as happened in 1918 to 1919, was to vaccinate some 40 million Americans against swine flu .. However, there have been serious complications associated with Balvaksen which led to the suspension of attempts and ended up on that virus, where he disappeared to appear again in late 2008 to 2009.
- Do you Vaksin in 1976 provides protection from infection with swine influenza new?
No, because the strain of the virus strain is different from the past and also that the passage of 30 years does not make facsimiles of the effectiveness of continuing until now.
- How easy is disease of swine flu?
In general, is a human influenza-like illness transmitted the same methods of transmission. But scientists did not reach so far is it just a direct contact or other reasons.
- Do you wear masks protects the rights of infection?
It is not harmful in wearing anything, but it should be pursued and the best means of prevention.
- How long will it take for the work facsimiles?
Months (6 months), had reached a “C-. De. C” to the seed will be the main manufacture facsimiles of the new strain mutated, but not taken the decision to produce or not even know how bad the outbreak.
- Can be used to take the drug “Tamiflu” as a preventive of HIV infection?
No, it will be started after 48 hours of the onset of symptoms, because excessive use makes the microbe resistant to the drug.
But it is recommended for this category to take medicine:
- Persons who are likely or suspected of having the symptoms, especially for those who have an increased risk of complications.
- Persons who suffer from chronic diseases or the elderly over 65 years, children less than 5 years, pregnant women who were found infected or suspected of contracting the disease, swine flu.
- Children who suffer from chronic conditions and contacted direct contact (face-to-face) with people proved or suspected of contracting the disease.
- Travel or life in places where there have been swine flu infection.
- Workers in the field of health care for patients (if there is likelihood of exposure to risk).
- Is it the virus will resume again in the proliferation of later?
Yes, it could happen to an appearance again after the disappearance. In 1918, the outbreak of the epidemic in the spring and disappeared in the summer and then reappeared again in the autumn.
