Flu Pandemia: General Overview

Flu pandemia is an unusual condition which sends a word every ten - forty years. It appears as a result of a new stamp of flu virus. Pandemia does not have mercy on anybody. It carries away lives of millions of people, thus ruining the existing society structure. If to set it adrift it is most likely to "kill" all the live, existing on our planet.

For the beginning it would be desirable to pay your attention to some cautions which needs to be taken. The cautions say that flu pandemia can appear at any moment, it does not dependent on seasons. It can capture a great amount of people literally for 2 - 3 weeks. Also it is capable to have an effect in different corners of the world approximately for the same time. A "hostage" of pandemia can become an absolutely healthy adult person. The number of fatal outcomes, disease nature, gravity degree and also an age of the sick can be various enough.

There is no doubt that pandemia is necessary to be prepared for. And this preparation should have a special plan. Only this way, representatives of each country can lower disease gravity to the minimum, as well as a general number of fatal outcomes and negative pandemia consequences which can happen in the social sphere. The World Health Organization is engaged in development of the plan also.

Plan development and realization of ways of preventive maintenance and treatment are considered the most important issues. Representatives of the World Health Organization confirm that creation of a new vaccine for struggle against any new kind of pandemia requires about half a year. Now think that in half a year millions people will pass away from the given kind of pandemia. During that time the vaccine is developed people have the only opportunity of taking medications.

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Tamiflu (Oseltamivir) is a unique active anti-viral medication from a group of receptor destroying enzyme inhibitors that is able to fight all significant viruses of flu among which are H5N1, H5, Í7 and Í9.

Peculiar Details of Herpes Virus

Herpes is an incurable virus illness (a complex of virus infectious diseases) in the form of bubbles which is spread all over the body, especially on lips or in the nose. The worst thing about herpes virus infections is that its virus-parasites get into DNA of a person and starts multiplying automatically at the further cell fission pari passu with the genetic information of the body.

The herpes virus represents one molecule of DNA in several membranes which cannot independently multiply. For reproduction it needs yeast nucleic acid. Its pair can be found in kernels of human body cells - the external layer - epidermis and the internal layer - epithelium. Being released out of the membrane, it gets inside of the cell and by means of special enzymes destroys its kernel.

Then it is built in it and forces the cell to reproduce similar virus particles. The created viruses-doubles direct to other cells, take a root in them and grasp the following fabric spaces. Externally it is shown in occurrence vesicle (vesiculate rash) on the mucous membranes or on the skin.

Leukocytes struggle and destroy herpes virus, but the later "is hidden" in congestions of nervous cells near the spinal cord or the brainstem and waits for weakening the immunity of a person. When because of external or internal stressful factors decreases the immunity, the herpes virus starts attacking.

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Famvir (Famciclovir) builds up a barrier ad protects your immune system from infection associated with herpes virus preventing it from destroying healthy cells.

New America’s Plague - Swine Flu

The U.S. government has declared swine flu an extreme situation in the public health services. The severity extend of the disease in the USA and other regions will be known in the process of epidemic deployment, but careful supervision over the succession of events all over the world and preparatory measures in the case of pandemia are carried out.

The World Health Organization has not proclaimed swine flu an epidemy. At first, the WHO intends to study the nature of the virus in details, severity of exposure and to define the exact period of its appearance. However, the pandemia in the society can happen not only after the occurrence of this new virus. The virus is capable to transmit from person to person in prompt rates. It can be a long process which consequences will be shown in years. Besides, there are no geographical barriers for viruses.

Alike people, swine can cause flu but swine influenza viruses aren’t as human influenza viruses. Swine influenza does not frequently affect people, and the uncommon human events that have happened in the preceding time have primarily infected masses that had straightforward contact with swine. But the present swine influenza eruption is dissimilar. Its induced by a new swine influenza virus that has dispersed from one-on-one - and its occurring among people who have not been in touch with pigs.

Symptoms of swine influenza are similar to ordinary flu symptoms and include fever, coughing, pharyngitis, body aches, head ache, cools, and tiredness. More or less, people have described looseness of the bowels and sicking related to swine flu. Those symptoms can also be induced by a lot of other circumstances, and this implies that you and your physician cant know, just observing your symptoms if you have got swine influenza or not. It acquires a laboratory test to tell whether its swine flu or another disease.

Each case of the disease with swine flu in the current flash is unique. In Mexico, death and heavy outcomes are registered. In the USA, cases of the disease are characterized by a moderate degree. However, the tendency can cardinally change. The virus can mutate, thus, the degree of its influence can amplify or weaken. Scientists conduct careful researches to determine the current tendency of virus development, however experts from the public health services remind of the well-known facts that signs of the virus cannot be expected as well as its character and mutation.

The new type of swine flu can be treated in some degree by anti-virus medicines, such as Tamiflu and Relenza. Experts in the Center for Disease Control and Prevention recommend taking these medications as preventive measures and treatment of swine flu. The action of drugs is most effective when applying within 48 hours after arising first disease symptoms. However, not all patients require their application; many US residents with laboratory confirmed attributes of swine flu have completely recovered without the necessity in taking these pharmaceuticals. The US Department of Homeland Security has allocated 25 % reserve stocks of Tamiflu and Relenza. Representatives of the health services have addressed people with the request not to accumulate and not to hide the medications.

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Relenza (Zanamivir) is a strongly recommended medication as an effective treatment of swine flu which is a hybrid, consisting of 3 swine flu strains, 3 known bird flu strains and a human flu virus.

Swine Flu: Steps to Stay Clean

From time to time, news, concerning flashes and scattered instances of affecting people with swine flu takes place. As a rule, its clinical symptoms are similar to the symptoms of the seasonal flu, but the recorded clinical picture varies over a wide range - from asymptomatic infection up to heavy pneumonia with fatal outcomes. In connection with that the typical clinical picture of swine flu among people is similar to seasonal flu and other acute infections of the upper respiratory ways, the majority of disease ceases are educed casually within the limits of epidemiological surveillance for seasonal flu. Light and asymptomatic disease cases can remain unrevealed; therefore, real spreading scales of this illness among people are unknown.

People usually catch swine flu from infected pigs, however, in some cases affected people had no previous contacts with pigs or environment where there were pigs. In some cases there was pathophoresis of infection from person to person, but it was limited by people and groups of people who were in close contact with sick people.

Epidemiologists recommend avoiding contacts with patients, having with symptoms of flu and pneumonia, to keep personal hygiene, not to visit places, crowded by people or situated close to pig farms. In case of appearing suspicious symptoms, you should urgently contact the doctor and visit public health sanitary antiepidemic services: in fact, swine flu is more dangerous than the bird's one.

Vaccines, containing the virus of the present swine flu, causing illness of people, do not exist yet. It is unknown whether available vaccines for seasonal flu can provide any protection. Viruses of flu change very quickly. It is important to develop a vaccine for maintaining the maximal protection of people from the present circulating virus strains.

We can suggest you taking a couple of steps how not to get affected with the disease:

• First of all, it is necessary to wash hands. Gels, soap or antiseptics for hands on the basis of alcohol destroy viruses and bacteria very effectively. The smallest particles of the virus can stay on surfaces of a table, phones and other things and can get into the body from fingers into the mouth, nose or eyes.


• Another tactics of protection against the infection can be named "social immovability". You should stay away of potentially infected people, avoid crowded places or simply not to leave the house if the infection has already widely spread.

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Tamiflu (Oseltamivir) is the today’s most effective anti-flu medication and is prescribed mainly for two purposes: treatment – actively fights bacteria in the body and inhibits the growth of infection; preventive – if you have had any contact with people, infected with the flu, Tamiflu helps to stop the spread of the flu in the body.