Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Swine Flu (H1N1)


The new H1N1 is a virus that is infecting humans and can be spread from one human to another. The symptoms of H1N1 are the same like those of virus in general, which are chills, fever, headache, coughing, weakness, and many other pains. The H1NI spreads in the same way that regular viruses spread, mainly through the coughs and sneezes of people who are sick with the virus.
In order to prevent the H1N1 people must wash their hands with soap and water. H1N1 virus can not be transmitted by food; people can not get H1N1 from eating pork or pork products. The human contamination with the flu disease from pigs are mostly to happen when people are in close to infected pigs, which are in barns and livestock housing pigs fair.
People may become infected by touching something with flu viruses on it and then touching their mouth or nose. Dozens of people are dying and falling ill with this disease spreading. The H1N1 illness doesn’t regularly take lives of pigs. The virus has apparently sickened more the 2,500 people and has killed more than 170 people. There are vaccines which are given to pigs to prevent the H1N1 virus, but there is none to protect humans from H1N1.

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