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Cleaning measures for a home safe from swine
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Studies reveal that the swine flu virus has a long survival
expectancy outside of a host body. If the cough of an infected person
were to release droplets containing the swine flu virus over a surface,
the virus would remain alive and able to infect anyone who touches the
surface, for the next eight hours. When someone touches the surface
inside eight hours, and then touches his eyes, nose or mouth, the virus
is transmitted successfully to the new person.The swine flu virus is
destroyed by heat between 75C and 100C. There are many chemical
germicides, chlorine, detergent, antiseptic cleaners based on iodine,
hydrogen peroxide and alcohol , that are good cleaning agents for
surfaces that are contaminated, if used in the right way, in the right
concentration. Sanitizing wipes and gels that contain alcohol are well
used in cleaning the hands. These should be rubbed into the skin until
dry.
When there is a swine flu- infected family member at home, care
providers should make sure that any tissues or other disposable cloth
used by the patient are thrown away in the garbage. The caregivers
should also make sure to wash their hands with soap after such a
cleaning-up chore. A good way to prevent the spread of swine flu around
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How swine flu is transmitted |
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Swine Flu or the H1N1
Influenza as the white-coats like to call it, is actually quite a
simple disease to attain a good measure of protection against, even if
the disease has a fearsome reputation. A little familiarity with the
ways in which swine flu passes around should help everyone take the
right steps. Swine flu is a term that is quite common around pig farms
for a Type A influenza that has always affected populations of pigs.
Hog lots, places where large numbers of pigs are raised for slaughter,
happen to offer regular contact between pigs and their human
caretakers. The H1N1 virus is suspected to have made the leap from an
ability to merely infect pigs to the ability to infect humans in just
such a place in Mexico earlier this year when a major swine flu
epidemic swept the country.
The influenza that the H1N1 virus is capable of, is known to be
contagious, though the severity of the contagiousness is not
well-established. A WHO release states that this virus is known to have
jumped the species barrier more than once in the past. To a virus that
has demonstrated such an ability to cross the species hurdle in the
past, person-to-person transfer is suspected to be no challenge. Swine
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What makes mexico's swine flu
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Scientists engaged in investigation of the current
swine flu epidemic have begun with the direct question of why the flu
affects Mexico with more intensity than other countries. There are more
cases of the flu in Mexico, and more deaths, when seen in proportion,
to the rest of North America. There has to be a reason to this that
provides useful information to those on the front lines of the battle.
Comparing Mexico to the rest of North America however, is not as simple
as it might seem. Researchers in the US
working in partnership with institutions in Mexico feel that there are
not enough swine flu infections at this time to learn anything from.
There need to be thousands of cases before a proper representative
average is able to be taken.The reason for all the numbers coming out
of Mexico could just be because of the fact that the disease started in
Mexico and has had a longer time in the region than in the US.
Scientific opinions usually cannot be made without adequate
representative samples. In addition, accurate sample-taking is
difficult amid all the commotion surrounding swine flu. There could be
deaths included in the swine flu account, that do not come from swine
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The swine flu epidemic |
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When swine flu began to
show up last month in North America, the CDC started work analyzing
virus samples from swine flu patients in Mexico to compare against the
viruses extracted from swine flu patients in the US. The two kinds of
swine flu were found to be similar, and different from anything that
had ever been seen before.
Mexico has seen in excess of 60 deaths from the swine flu so far.
Surprisingly, the slain in Mexico are people who were young and
healthy. This confirms the feeling that this virus is a new strain that
has previously never been encountered before by humanity. If it
happened that the flu was slaying the weakest in the population, that
the old or the very young, just the way things happen with normal
seasonal flu, it would be a normal scenario. To have the healthiest
part of the population succumb with their health and their strong
immunities offering no defense against the flu, shows that it is not a
matter of strength or health anymore; it is a matter of a new organism
that the human body has no resistance against yet.
In normal flu, winters are the most troublesome months; with the onset
of summer, the flu virus withers away in the heat. It is beginning to
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A swine flu vaccine |
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The world does not
yet have an effective vaccine against the swine flu virus. The
government at this time has its eye on two prospects that could
possibly yield a vaccine. It is hoped that the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention can have a final version ready to deliver to
pharmaceutical companies around the world soon, to help them begin
manufacturing vaccines for use in hospitals.
The government has allocated funds now for conducting safety tests on
the first vaccine that come out. The first doses available are expected
to be administered to healthcare professionals who in the line of their
work are routinely exposed to swine flu. Researchers for the CDC have
shared with the public, information about the genetic makeup of the
swine flu virus and they have expressed their concerns that the virus
could have been in circulation in pigs for years. New research is
expected to allow the creation of a vaccine that can fight the swine
flu virus today and help keep
the virus from mutating in the future.
To gain the knowledge that will help keeping in the swine flu virus
from mutating in the future, scientists need to know where the virus
came from in the past. The H1N1 virus , ever since it made the transfer
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