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Swine flu fever
Whenever a public health official utters the word ‘pandemic’ in a deliberately calm tone of voice, it’s understandable that many people decide that it’s time to panic. The surprise, in the big flu panic/ pandemic of 2009, is not how quickly we panicked, but how quickly the news media declared that we were overreacting. Health officials raised the alarm on the last Sunday in April, and already t...
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Swine origin influenza was first recognized in the border area of Mexico and United States in April 2009 and during a short span of two months became the first pandemic. The currently circulating strain of swine origin influenza virus of the H1N1 strain has undergone triple reassortment and contains genes from the avian, swine and human viruses. It is transmitted by droplets or fomites. Incubat...
متن کاملSwine flu and antibiotics.
Health services worldwide are likely to be hard-pressed by swine flu-related illness in the months ahead. Secondary infections with Streptococcus pneumoniae, other streptococci (e.g. Streptococcus pyogenes), Haemophilus influenzae and Staphylococcus aureus are likely to be important causes of morbidity and mortality. The UK Department of Health recently published clinical pathways for the manag...
متن کاملThe swine flu scam?
There is a conspiracy theory about nearly everything. So claims that swine flu was a scam come as no surprise. 'This was a pandemic that never really was' according to Paul Flynn, MP who prepared a recent report on the flu pandemic for the Council of Europe. 1 The report expresses alarm about the way the pandemic was handled. It criticizes the proportionality of the response and argues that ove...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Current Biology
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0960-9822
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2009.05.001