How long are you sick before dead on Swine Flu?

Answer 1

Adults shed influenza virus from the day before symptoms begin through 5-10 days after illness onset. However, the amount of virus shed, and presumably infectivity, decreases rapidly by 3-5 days after onset in an experimental human infection model. Young children also might shed virus several days before illness onset, and children can be infectious for 10 or more days after onset of symptoms. Severely immunocompromised persons can shed virus for weeks or months.

Answer 2

Usually your immune system will kill the virus and you will live your normal life span. There are specific groups of people who are at higher risk for complications and even death from the H1N1/09 flu, but the Death Rate is very low compared to even the seasonal flu viruses, chances are you will live as long as you would have without having had the flu.

Answer 3

First of all it is no longer called the Swine Flu it is called H1N1 and second of all the reason the first case died is because the family did not take the child to a doctor because they were in the country illegally. And now we have better medicine, so no one is going to die. your mom but ithink 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000 years

Answer 4

It depends on the person's general state of health at the time they get it as well as the functioning of their immune systems. Some people get mild cases of only a few days, others get severe cases of a few weeks or more and are hospitalized. On average, the symptoms of the flu generally last 3 - 10 days but the H1N1/09 virus lasts more typically 4 - 7, although a cough and fatigue may persist for up to 2 weeks. The rule of thumb for how long you are contagious is that you should consider yourself able to be in public again only after you go a full 24 hours without fever, when checking it regularly and not using fever reducers. See the related question below for how long each stage of the infection typically, for a list of people at higher risk for complications and longer symptom duration, etc.

If you factor in secondary infections to the duration, such as viral pneumonia or bacterial pneumonia or other bacterial infections like bronchitis or strep in the throat. This can happen often, especially in the high risk patients and those with underlying chronic medical conditions.

Age makes a difference. Older people may be sick longer than younger people if they contract the viral infection. Although, this particular flu virus (Pandemic H1N1/09) has not infected as many people in the age group of 65 and over as the regular seasonal flu viruses usually do.

Nutrition makes a difference. So keep your immune system healthy by eating right and drinking plenty of liquids.

A cough can be one of the last symptoms to be alleviated, two weeks or even 16 days in some people. If a cough lasts longer than ten days after the onset of the first symptoms of the flu, it is a good idea to check with your health care provider since secondary bronchitis or pneumonia can occur following a viral flu, and you may need to have some prescription medication to treat a secondary infection.

Those with complications requiring treatment in hospitals have taken from 2 to 5 weeks (some longer) to fully recover.

Answer 5

Symptoms usually develop in around 3 - 5 days from exposure to the virus that causes the flu in otherwise healthy adults. This means that for a few days, you can be contagious and not even know you have been infected. This stresses the importance of good hand hygiene as a routine.

Answer 6

Usually only a couple of days and then the symptoms will start. See the related question below for more details of the incubation period of swine flu H1N1/09. Although you may not have symptoms at first, you are still able to spread the infection during that first few days before symptoms start. This makes routine hand washing and careful preventive steps even more important during flu season.

Answer 7

normally 5-7 days

Answer 8

about a month

Answer 9

until the affected person is dead!!

Answer 10

Obb n someone one month