Swine flu virus that has been making the world panic today is a mixture of eight genetically different influenza viruses, not the ordinary H1N1 flu virus genetic.
“There was a reassortment in flu viruses, where a new swine flu came from pigs that have swine flu, bird flu and human flu. Pigs on the farm always got the flu every year, usually towards the end of fall, but the swine flu virus is different from the H1N1 ordinary swine influenza.Genes mutation occur on the normal H1N1, changing it into a new H1N1 virus gene
Swine Flu
Flu virus itself have manytype. The H3N2, H3N1, H1N1 in human, H1N1 in pigs and H5N1 in birds.
Swine flu can occur not only in temperate regions, cold, or high latitudes, infact the swine flu virus living in the temperature optimum of 37 degrees Celsius.
Right now the spread of swine flu was heading the tropical regions. To anticipate the possibility of exposed cases of swine flu, people should avoid contact with a person who had the flu, using special masks, wash hands, and resting at home when having the flu.
Flu patients who are suspected to have swine flu should be isolated for seven days after initial symptoms. After seven days the patients can be declared cured and no longer contagious.
Until now there are no swine flu or bird flu vaccine that has undergone a clinical trials phase , the readily available Tamiflu is actually an antiviral drug and not a vaccine.
“It is difficult to create and produce a vaccine so much at the time of a pandemic occurs thousands of people already infected
We will never know how many doses of vaccine the government bought and threw away. The Europeans are getting rid of theirs right now.