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What is swine flu?
Swine Flu is a new strain of flu that originates from pigs and can travel to Humans. It started in Mexico
What types of flu create the Swine Flu?
A mixture of the standard Human Flu, Bird Flu and Pig Flu. This creates a new strain of flu called swine flu (Influenza A H1 N1).
Were treatments available for the 1976 Swine Flu?
The swine flu in 1976 was contained to a very few (under five) people at a military base in New Jersey, all but one of those who were infected recovered without treatment different from that given at the time for seasonal flu. One person died.
Why is knowing about the Swine Flu important?
Knowing about the swine flu is important because it is a new strain of flu, resistant to most medications. Although the death toll is the same of the normal flu, it needed a new vaccine.
How is Swine Flu related to bird flu?
Swine flu is caused by a new influenza virus that has genetic material from several different flu viruses that combined to form the new H1N1/09. The different types of flu involved in the development of the new virus are three types of swine flu (Asian, European, and American), avian "bird" flu, and human flu. Other than that relationship and that they are both influenza viruses, there is no other real relationship. Symptoms, mortality rates, and transmission are quite different between bird flu and swine flu.See the related question below for more informationon what caused this new type of flu.
What is spine flu?
You mean swine flu? I it is a new flu virus, very deadly to aged and young people.
What is the H1N1 vaccine supply and demand?
North Carolina was said to have found the swine flu first but, the first person to die from the swine flu was in New Mexico
If Swine Flu can kill you then why not normal flu?
Normal flu does kill. In the USA alone it killed over 36,000 people in 2008! So if you were to find out the death numbers from flu in other countries the total would very high! http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2240054/posts Swine flu is just more of a concern as it is a new type of flu containing both bird flu and swine flu. Only very few people if anyone at all will have immunity from Swine flu.
Who generally gets Swine Flu?
Anyone who has not had a flu vaccination each year since the pandemic and/or has not already had illness from the exact strain of flu as the pandemic swine flu. The annual flu vaccine has contained the H1N1/09 swine flu since the first regular flu season (in 2010 - 2011) after the discovery of the new strain in 2009. In the 2009 - 2010 flu season, a second vaccination against swine flu was required to be taken, in addition to the regular seasonal flu vaccination, to be immune. See the related question below for a list of those mostly likely to get, and have complications from, the 2009 swine flu (if they have not been vaccinated).
What are the four phases of Swine Flu?
It is not a combination of four viruses in swine flu, only the one H1N1/09 virus. You may be thinking of the four types of genetic material contained in the genome (virus DNA or RNA hereditary information) that are found in the H1N1/09 virus. These contain the genetic material of the virus and help in identification of the specific virus and the origins of it. Swine flu (H1N1/09) contains genomes from four types of flu, this is called a quadruple reassortant (or reassortment). It indicates that there have been changes in the original virus with introduction of new genomes to create the new form. The four types of flu reassorted in the pandemic swine flu are: Eurasian swine flu, American swine flu, Avian flu, and Human flu. Some scientists prefer to call it a quintuple reassortant and list it as five by breaking down Eurasian swine flu into the original two genomes that combined to form it, Asian swine flu and European swine flu.
Is this the same Swine Flu of the 1970's?
No the A-H1N1/09 is a new strain of flu that has genetic material from three types of swine influenza viruses, avian flu virus and human flu virus. The "swine flu" in the mid 1970's was also an A-H1N1 influenza virus but quite a bit different than the pandemic strain.
How safe is it to travel to US in July considering swine flu?
It's definitely unsafe. If you can check the WHO site, You can see that the number of new cases keep rising in the U.S, where as even in Mexico it has stopped spreading.
