What is Swine Flu?

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In 2005 around the time of Thanksgiving, a 17-year-old teenager helped his brother-in-law kill 31 pigs and a week later another pig which he also gutted too. Then on the holiday his family bought in a chicken and kept it in the house.

On December 7 of the same year he had the flu that he can recover in 3 days, nobody in his family got ill too.

It was H1N1 swine influenza but it was ignored at the time. Then 4 years later it has evolve itself and comeback more dangerous.

On April of 2009 a boy name Édgar Enrique Hernández fall sick with the flu which then found to be H1N1. He is luckily recovered from the virus.(He was believed to be the first that was infected with the virus).

The influenza evolution occur when two different types of flu viruses happen to get into an animal cell at the same time, swapping entire chromosomes to create "reassorted" viruses. This is very contagious and dangerously treated to the human race.

Reaction Through Out The World

April 30 2009
A worker carries face masks inside a warehouse in Bataan province in the Philippines. The plant, which manufactures face masks and isolation gowns, has trebled its production since the outbreak of swine flu

April 30 2009
Chinese health inspectors wearing protective suits and goggles wait to board an AeroMexico aircraft in Shanghai. Countries worldwide have ramped up their border and airport checks and many are advising against non-essential travel to areas where the virus has been found, especially Mexico

April 29 2009
A man wearing a mask departs a flight from Mexico City at Gatwick Airport in London. Airlines and travel companies are preparing to repatriate holidaymakers from Mexico after the Foreign Office advised against all but essential travel to the country. Both Thomson Holidays and First Choice have cancelled further flights to Cancun as fears of a flu pandemic continue to rise

A thermal scanner installed in Incheon Airport in Seoul displays the body temperatures of passengers arriving on an international flight. The gauge on the right uses Celsius, in which 36.8 is considered normal.

1,569 cases in 21 countries (with the total death of 31 with 1 death outside Mexico) were confirmed right now and The World Health Organization (WHO) in Switzerland has announced the global alarm level at 5, one step short of the declaration of a full epidemic, which would be level 6.

The situation turns the whole world into the panic state. This lead China to quarantines many Mexicans who travel to China as holidays trips when only one is reported to be sick. Passenger number of Air transportation fell down.

So now many Asian countries have pulled out their thermal scanners from the old SARS scare to use but will it work. The study reported that H1N1 is contagious even before the symptom show in patients.

What To Do?......As My Conclusion.

Right now all you should to do is to stay clam because no one how worry we should be. I am trying my best to be that way. There is no point to be too afraid. As long as you have the information so stay on the news, always be prepare. YOU HAVE TO KNOW EVERTHING but remember not to believe everything the media is making us panic.

The best advices that I can give you are these…….

Don't panic and rush to the hospital if you don't have the flu-like symptom. It will make everything worse.

Don’t be afraid to eat pork, as long as it’s cooked then it is fine. H1N1 has infected to humans and is passing from person to person, so it's the flu in human that needs to be controlled in us, not the pigs.

Cover your mouth when you sneeze or cough (with your arm, not your hands, to avoid spreading the virus through handshakes) and wash your hands frequently. Carry a bottle of hand sanitizer and use it. This one is very important!!!!!!

When it is the time to slow the spread of a pandemic flu, another thing that we can do is keep sick people away from everyone else. So if you're feeling sick, don't go to work or the class until you feel better.

So this is how you will feel like if you really have swine flu




These are the things that you can do for now. And the most important thing is to know what’s going on in the world. And wash you hands!!!!