Swine Flu Case
For months, the Health Department of Benton County made preparations in case of bird flu first appeared terrible in our region. Health officials in Linn County are doing the same thing. All that is irresponsible. After all, this new strain of H5N1 bird flu pandemic fears the largest in 30 years. But are they justified, or we see a kind of measure, including the repetition of the swine flu crisis of 1976?
For those who do not exist or has forgotten, is when President Gerald Ford, his popularity in decline, began the most ambitious vaccination program in the nation’s history. So many people were convinced that they need to fear that the capture of the swine influenza more than 40 million have received vaccinations.
Fortunately, not simply as swine influenza virulent in humans as planned. That have only been a colossal waste of money and public confidence if it were not for the 1000 cases of a condition called Guillain-Barré syndrome that struck those who were vaccinated against swine flu. That led to a worsening of the paralysis and fatigue. The second shot of fire, the guilt and the trial has led to some drugs to stop the production of influenza vaccines completely.
The launch of the swine flu fear has begun to fear that the events in February 1976, a soldier at Fort Dix, New Jersey, fell sick with the flu and died. 200 Other trials have shown that antibodies to the so-called swine flu, and health officials are convinced that this was the first wave of a pandemic.
The similarities of these concerns in 1976 are numerous.
The H5N1 strain of flu is changing faster than the 15 subtypes of avian influenza virus, but outside of this disturbing potential to mutate into a more dangerous disease to humans, according to the Centers for Disease Control Diseases, c which is fairly standard flu virus. (See more about bird flu to the website of the CDC, www.cdc.gov/flu/avian/
gen-info/facts.htm.)
The key is that avian flu is something to worry too much if you’re a bird. So far, avian flu around the world have been incidents related directly to the people who handle poultry, usually by the slaughter, eating, or otherwise handling raw, infected poultry and not man for man transfer, which could herald a true pandemic.
Marc Siegel, associate professor of medicine at New York University School of Medicine and author of “Bird Flu: Everything you need to know about the next pandemic, as the swine flu fiasco of what they see as over-preparation for avian influenza.
Siegel recommends taking a good sense of prevention, focusing on working with what we know not only what you fear. It would be sensible advice. Keeping in preparations, but not lose our cool and our common sense.
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