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Tamiflu is an anti-viral medication that can be prescribed for influenza and other viral infections. It is effective against swine flu and can be helpful to shorten the duration and reduce the severity of symptoms.
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∙ 14y ago
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∙ 14y agoYou can always take medicine without actually needing it but you shouldn't. You can become immune so when you actually need it it wont work. Tamiflu is no miracle drug but should be consulted with a doctor before taken.
it's also prescribed for the regular flu.
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∙ 14y agoNo. H1N1 is a type of influenza virus, like the "Swine Flu". Tamiflu is a medication used in the treatment of the influenza. It is an anti-viral drug that helps you get over the flu faster and with less serious symptoms.
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∙ 14y agoThe injected vaccines (flu shots/jabs) can be taken at the same time as taking Tamiflu or antiviral medications, since they are made from inactivated ("dead") viruses. The antiviral medicine will not make the shot ineffective or vice versa. But, the nasal mist vaccines which are made from live attenuated viruses (weakened viruses that can't make you sick but trigger an immune response) should not be used at the same time as an antiviral medication like Tamiflu, since there is a chance that the antiviral medicine will render the vaccine ineffective. The LAIV (Live Attenuated Influenza Vaccine) relies on the virus in the vaccine to be weak but active to give you the immunity. You should wait 48 hours after stopping the Tamiflu before taking a vaccine that contains the live virus (in the US, this is the nasal mist vaccine).
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∙ 12y agoNot exactly depending on how you look at it. Swine flu is really a generic term used when talking in a general way about many viruses thought to have originated in hogs. That term stands for more than one strain of H1N1 viruses, most of which have been around for...lets just say "forever"... infecting pigs. And some have mutated so that they have been able to infect people over the centuries.
Influenza (flu) viruses mutate easily and usually fairly quickly, and that is how they "figure out" how to stay alive against the defenses our bodies produce when the virus infects us. However, there are some H1N1 viruses that are not called the swine flu.
The "swine flu" that caused the 2009 pandemic is a new strain of H1N1 swine flu virus that has just recently been created in nature through mutations of other viruses (see the related question below about what caused the 2009 pandemic swine flu for more details). It is more properly called Type A, H1N1/09 influenza virus (see also related question below about names of the new 2009 virus).
Since it became world wide news in the spring of 2009, just like the name "swine flu", the name "H1N1" is a name currently being used by the general public to talk about the same thing: the 2009 pandemic swine flu virus. Most of the populace assume that the current use of both names is referring to the same virus that caused the pandemic. But to talk in more detail of its characteristics, etc., or to compare it to other "swine flu" or other H1N1 viruses, it is necessary for scientists to talk in more specific language and use more definitive names.
yes
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∙ 13y agoYes they are just different names for the same thing.
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∙ 14y agoyes it is
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What is fatal bird flu or Swine Flu?
All types of flu can be fatal. But the Avian (bird) flu is more fatal, it kills 50 to 60% of those infected. Swine flu H1N1/09 has a mortality rate well below 1%.
Is Flu contagious?
Yes, some strains are highly contagious in humans, such as the H1N1/09 pandemic Swine Flu. Others, like the Avian (bird) flu, are not easily transmitted from person to person. Transmission of the bird flu from human to human is extremely rare.
If a pig has Swine Flu are the symptoms the same as a human?
The common form of Swine Flu that pigs get is also H1N1 influenza (the original swine flu strain), but it is not the same as the Pandemic A-H1N1/09 Influenza. When pigs get H1N1, they have similar symptoms to humans with influenza. They cough and sneeze and get weak. This flu spreads quickly through the group of pigs who are usually in over-crowded pens, but the mortality rate among pigs is not as severe as the A-H1N1/09 Pandemic Flu in humans.
Is the H1N1 bacteria?
H1N1 is a flu virus, not a bacterium.
If you have had Asian flu in the 1956 pandemic might you have some immunity to Swine Flu?
No, probably not. There is genetic material from Asian Pig Influenza in the A-H1N1/09 "Swine Flu", but it also has components of Avian (bird) Flu, European Pig Influenza and Human Flu. The new strain is very different from prior strains of the H1N1 flu or any other Type A Influenza viruses, so there should be no antibodies effective for A-H1N1/09m
Is yellow fever like H1N1 and how?
yes, because h1n1 is the swine flu and flu's are alot like fevers
What strain of influenza is the seasonal flu?
Seasonal flu vaccines carry an H1N1 component, an H3N2 strain and an influenza B strain. The H1N1 component is not the Novel H1N1 strain that is in the swine flu vaccine
How likely are you to get the H1N1 flu after your kids had it?
If you were born before 1975 you are not very likely to get H1N1 flu from anyone because you probably already had it. If you were born after 1975, you are very likely to get H1N1 flu from your kids or anyone else that has it.
Is there such thing as H5N1?
What are you talking about? You typed the same exact thing? Yes it's the same, it's Bird Flu aka Avian Flu, and technically called H5N1. Your question is confusing, it takes on the same characteristics as the following mock question. Does CONFUSING mean the same thing as confusing? Hope that helped buddy.
Can you get H1N1 shot and flu mist together?
You can take the H1N1/09 swine flu shot and a nasal mist for the seasonal flu at the same time.There would be no reason to take the swine flu shot at the same time as the swine flu nasal mist since both do the same thing, so that should not be done.You can take a swine flu nasal mist at the same time as a seasonal flu shot.You can NOT take a nasal flu mist for swine flu at the same time as you take a nasal flu mist for seasonal flu. They can render each other ineffective.You can take a nasal flu mist for swine flu with any other nasal flu mist vaccine EXCEPT the one for seasonal flu.The 2009 H1N1 flu shot (inactivated 2009 H1N1 vaccine) can be given at the same visit as any other vaccine, including pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine.Update 2010: There is no reason to get the H1N1 vaccine or flu mist up your nose this year as there is no pandemic or outbreaks. The US govt has included the H1N1 in every flu shot on top of the regular vaccines for flu which is not necessary and could harm you health permanently with the addition of squalene. Pregnant mothers have lost their babies in thousands of miscarriages, and people have died after the flu shot was given last year. The flu mist will give you live viruses in your nose and when you go home you will be breathing out the viruses to spread to the rest of your family. Take vitamin C instead, and chicken soup -you will live longer.
Can Swine Flu mix with another virus?
Yes. In fact the way the H1N1 pandemic swine flu was formed by the mixing of a human flu virus, a bird flu virus and a swine flu virus in a pig. When two similar viruses that are infecting the same cell exchange genetic material this is known as reassortment. They go on to form a new virus.
What is duration of Swine Flu?
h1n1
