Past few months were full of swine flu. In order to control swine flu pandemic government requested public to follow up certain precautions and to get themselves examined in case they have become ill with Swine flu like symptoms including fever, body aches, head aches, runny nose, sore throats, nausea, vomiting or diarrhea etc. Due [...]
H1N1 vaccine is one of the ways to protect people from swine flu pandemic. Other ways of protection are anti-viral drugs, social distancing and personal hygiene. All these majors are harder to follow for longer duration. Thus Vaccination is considered as the most effective way. Everyone is aware that till September, 2009 there were no [...]
All are aware of the fact that there are only two types of anti-viral drugs are effective against swine flu, Tamiflu, also known as Oseltamivir and Relenza, also known as Zanamivir. These drugs are under patent and are manufactured by only three pharmaceutical companies all over the world. Tamiflu is manufactured by the Switzerland based [...]
Although H1N1 virus is quite old, no vaccine was ready to protect people against pandemic flu till last year. Everyone knows that vaccine against H1N1 virus needs at least 6-12 months to be produced. Current H1N1 strain has been declared a pandemic and it requires production of vaccine in order to prevent further harm from [...]
Swine Flu is spreading among human rapidly. Here are some swine flu preventive majors and treatment. Precautions against Swine Flu: Here are some preventive majors should be taken in order to prevent it from spreading it or protecting yourself from swine flu. As everyone knows that swine flu is spreading among human through coughing and [...]
Some of you may think that like CHIKV viruses of Chikungunya or H5N1 viruses Birds Flu, even swine flu (H1N1) viruses are new. But swine flu viruses are very old than you think. Discovered in 1918: Swine Influenza was first found in 1918 and that time it was noted as new disease in pigs. But [...]
Fro, several days more and more people are getting infected by H1N1 viruses even after so much media hype about it. So I thought of writing a post about it. What is Swine Flu: Swine influenza also called as pig flu or H1N1 flu is respiratory disease of pigs caused by Type A influenza (H1N1) [...]
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