Is the swine flu medium frenzy freshly that or a existing robustness concern? It seem overexposed approaching everything else?
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It IS a real health concern. Flu pandemics have kill millions in the past. The difference nowadays is that because of advance in medicene, usually only the very childish and very old are at risk of death from flu because they own less in reserve to wait the flu out. Because influenza is a virus, near are no medicenes that can truly rid the body of it. Treatment consists mostly of replacing fluids/electrolytes and thinning mucus/dilating airways.
The worry about flu pandemics the past few years is that the sheer number of sick society could overwhelm the local abilities to care for them, especially when the healthcare providers become ill themselves. In this swine flu outbreak, what is making the CDC and WHO distressed is the apparent ability for this flu to transmit itself more easily than the everyday flu and it seems to be more dangerous to healthier associates.
Now, is it likely that this will happen? Probably not. Those of us in healthcare hold been working with these warmings for years and years. It's kinda like when your mom keep warning your grandma won't be around much longer so you better visit. Will Grandma die eventually? Yes. Will it be before you can look in next week when she's been threatening for years, probably not.
BTW, the media will lash us up into ANYTHING that will make us watch the news darkness after night. Keep that in mind and take everything near a grain of salt. A few years ago it was sharks. You're still more plausible to be killed by a terrorist than to be bitten by a shark, but they didn't make it seem approaching that did they?
Here's a good article on it. Source(s): http://www.independent.co.uk/news/scienc…
The Public Health Service and the CDC are in a bind. There is enough information to be worried, all the same not enough to cause emergency action. But by the subsequent week or so, we may be in for very bad word. Let's hope not.
In 1976 swine flu was responsible for the death of a young soldier. A severe epidemic be predicted, but it never came. Lucky for us.
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