Are the bird flu and H1N1 the same?

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

You 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.

Answer 3

No. 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.

Answer 4

The 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).

Answer 5

Not 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

Answer 6

Yes they are just different names for the same thing.

Answer 7

yes it is