Another Name For The Swine Flu
Swine flu the dreadful disease that has been grabbing attention from all over the world has been successful in killing more than 100 people and infected over thousand people across the world. Mexico is one of worst hit areas with large numbers of cases being reported here. Though not all states and cities of US and other nations are infected with swine flu, there is certainly a great amount of fear among them. Swine flu is a contagious disease that can spread even before the symptoms are visible.
The swine flu virus has a scientific name the H1N1 influenza. However, this virus is popular as swine flu, as it’s found among birds and other animals. Some prefer to even call it as Mexican influenza as it first broke out in Mexico that too on a large scale. However, WHO or World Health Organization has announced and made it mandatory to denote this flu as H1N1. This order came out after the Egyptians slaughtered several pigs fearing the spread of swine flu. There are several misconceptions among people about this sudden outbreak.
Swine flu is a type “A” virus that can spread across the world and is thus called as pandemic. This global break out has posed a big challenge to the medical fraternity to protect several thousand infected people. The bad news is there is no vaccine that can prevent infection from this virus. Initially this disease was found only among pigs and experts had no clue if this could come on to humans until a few days back. This virus contains components of the virus that affects birds and pigs. The human immune system not ready to deal with this virus cannot combat it. Only 2 tablets are there that can stop the development of this killer virus but cannot kill it.
Scientists have made it clear that the current out break of swine fluis spreading only from human to human and not from pigs. Although this virus originated in pigs the fact is that it came on to humans without affecting them much. Experts are doing many tests and studies to become more familiar with this horrible disease. It has also been made clear that swine flu is not being spread by eating pork, thus killing of pigs made no sense and was not the right preventive measure.
The symptoms of swine flu are similar to those that of normal or regular flu. Cold chills, cough, high fever, body aches, vomiting, diarrhea and dizziness are some of common signs of swine flu or should we call it N1H1. The scientific name H1N1 influenza will not prompt people to kill innocent pigs that may not even be affected with this life threatening virus. As of now there are no cases or confirmation that this virus has been transferred from pigs and thus people are urged not to slaughter the animals. By using the technical name, it will help to remove the confusion amongst people regarding pigs and the swine flu outbreak.
As of now there is no vaccine that can protect humans from the N1H1 influenza infection and prevention is the only measure to keep us protected.