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Posted on September 6, 2009 by Roberto Sedycias | Posted under Diseases
Swine Flu - Learn The Essential Facts About It
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Our fascinating immune system: There must have plenty of times that we have been infected with thenormal human flu. It is not very dangerous except for very younginfants and old people, already leading a debilitating life. Thankfullyenough, nature has entrusted us with such an immune system whichimmediately recognizes an alien in the body and rises to the occasionto incapacitate it. But this leads to a mutation of the virus whichreturns to try its luck again. This time, our immune system faces alittle more difficulty in driving it away. This is the reason whybetter vaccines must be developed each time to fight the enhanced formof the virus. How does swine flu affect us? When there is a mutation in the external proteins of the normal humanflu virus, our immune system puts forth its defense mechanism to fightthe virus. During this time, we suffer from the effects of the virus,like having fever and running nose and perhaps some respiratoryproblems. If it so happens that the body is unable to meet thechallenge thrown by the virus, we succumb to the virus and have tobreathe our last. In case of swine flu, our body is not able torecognize the symptoms of the virus which makes it increasinglydifficult to fight against it. The virus has now crossed the bridge andattacked the human race from the pigs. Are you susceptible to the virus? It has been found that people who have had no interaction with pigs aremost susceptible to swine flu. Their immune system has no record ofsuch a virus and is least equipped to fight it. When the virus affectsa significant part of the population of a place, it will surely turnout to be pandemic. It is difficult to pronounce the exact effects ofthe swine flu virus in the global perspective. How virulent the virusis will determine the degree to which it will affect the humans.Several other factors are also responsible for the outbreak of swineflu as a pandemic. The spread of the disease: In the past, swine flu would not have spread and become pandemicthroughout the world. It would have affected an entire locality orcity. But with people traveling great distances across the seas andoceans, the flu is not one to stay behind. By the time a person learnsthat he is infected, he may be thousands of miles away from his city. Necessary precautions: So what should be done to avoid this dreaded disease? Firstly, now thatwe know that there is a particular season when the pigs are affected bythis flu, we should put the pigs in quarantine and prepare speciallydesigned suits for people who handle them. Basic hygiene is a must withclean hands and clean environment. And further, traveling to placeswhere swine flu is rampant should be avoided for some time until theparticular period of getting the virus is gone. You can also take thehelp of different agencies who will help you to guard against swineflu. So educate yourself and help design a better life for yourself. About The Author: You can have access to articles about health in portuguese language from page Health Roberto Sedycias works as IT consultant for Polomercantil |
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