Health

About Swine Influenza

For the first time the swine flu into a new type of gun homicide in Mexico and diwaspadai as an infectious disease in the United States and other countries. Although Indonesia is far from the center of contamination, there are good people to know more about the disease that is feared could spread throughout the world.

Authorities in the United States (U.S.), said there is no need to panic while the step is done and the prevention of the spread of the community to ask for more attention to health warning in order to make the latest prevention own.

According to Richard Besser, the head of the central control infectious disease prevention or Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the role of individuals is very important to prevent the spread. He menuturkan a few things to note.

Besser says, how to protect yourself and family at this time is to do prevention you normally do. Close the mouth when coughing and clean with a tissue and then immediately discarded, or sneezing at the elbow compared to the hand.

Then, with a regular hand-washing. If there is no soap and water, the liquid washing hands can be used as an alternative. Remain at home when you or your children sick.

Symptoms of flu pigs is very similar to ordinary flu, which is marked by fever, cough, sore throat, body pain, dizziness, headache and cold. Even in some marked with diarrhea and vomiting.

Health workers say, if you live in a pig infected with the flu or just a trip in Mexico and experiencing symptoms of flu such as above, then you should immediately see to the health or treated dites. If you feel as a result due to allergic, so will not cause a fever. Or, from insect bites will not be followed by symptoms of respiratory disturbances.

Ways of transmission

Besser confess, until now researchers have not yet know exactly how the virus of swine flu, and how long the time or distance needed.

However, in general, he said, flu viruses spread through coughing and sneezing that are not covered or when someone touches the mouth or nose from the dirty hands. Given the flu virus can live on the surface of the skin for several hours. The withdrawal time someone touches the door grip previously held by the other people who sneeze ditangannya. Besser said, the pork is cooked will not transmit this type of flu.

In Mexico, people are asked to use the mask. What needs to be done by people in other countries? Besser explained, until now not yet have the evidence, masks are very helpful as a tool to help the health of swine flu prevention.

However, he admitted, mask can minimize contact with someone sick or when sedanga in the throng of people is not known whether there is a flu infected pigs. Hany only until you do not neglect the other prevention steps.

Up to now there is no vaccine that can be used to prevent infection of swine flu virus. Vaccines to prevent the flu is not always able to prevent this type of virus. To produce the vaccine, it takes a few months time. U.S. Government also decided not to approve pembuatannya far.

Can be treated

To question whether the swine flu can be treated, Besser says, the disease can be cured with the flu drug Tamiflu and Relenza, but not with the flu drug more ancient.

He said that, until now the United States government has enough supplies to treat up to 50 million people and many other countries have the additional supply. Besser assert, does not need someone mengonsumsi Tamiflu or other drugs for the prevention of swine flu. The use of such a fact may have helped the virus to the drug resistance.

The risk of someone infected swine flu is very low. Outside Mexico, the people who are only exposed to a recently traveled from Mexico. For example, patients from New York, consisting of students and family members at one school students who recently returned from the Mexican holiday.

Mystery Death in Mexico

Reason for Mexican citizens can die after bird flu infected pigs and not citizens in other countries, is still a mystery. Besser added, until now there has not been any definitive numbers of death due to flu. Only a small percentage of victims who died due to confirmed bird flu virus in pigs, while other deaths are caused by different diseases.

He menyarakan that people delay visits to Mexico at this time if there are not urgent. Warning was issued by the U.S. government since some time ago.

Besser said, the U.S. government has started to do a limited screening of people who recently returned from Mexico. If ill, it will be sent for treatment. Meanwhile, other countries, he added, has also issued a travel warning (travel warning), and prohibition.

Mexican government also has taken new steps to close or delay the event to create a collection of hundreds of thousands of people.

While in the U.S., people who belong in a community inhabited swine flu infected patient contact is limited. New York schools that have been infected with the swine flu for some days. He suggested that people continue to listen to the latest news, to guard the place, including place if infected.

Swine influenza is usually spread the disease among them, sometimes people who come into contact with pigs may be infected. Swine flu virus, but this new type of virus is a mixture of pigs with human and bird viruses. Do not look like the virus in pigs in general, is spreading through human to human.

In the 1976 swine flu have occurred that are not common in Fort Dix, then the problem is completed with a mass vaccination campaign.****