SWINE FLU

Swine Flu in Australia

Swine Flu in Australia

Introduction

Swine Flu is the term which refers to the cases of influenza caused by endemic infection to Orthomyxovirus in pigs. The transmission of virus from pigs to humans is difficult but it is not impossible. Even, in a past few years, it has become one of the most common diseases in some parts of the world. It is now believed that the swine flu is a respiratory disease of pigs caused by type A influenza virus. This type of flu strikes on a regular pigs. It can be known as pandemic since a pandemic is an epidemic which presents in a wide geographic area. In the ordinary sense, it affects a particularly large share of the population.

Purpose

The purpose of the paper is to let people of the Australia know about the things which must be kept in the emergency aid kit at home to prevent from swine flu.

Scope

Scope of the research would is that this proposed kit would be helpful for the people in preventing from the disease as the kit is being developed by a health professional.

Point of View

The paper will first present the discussion on the things which must be kept in the emergency aid kit at home to prevent from the disease. Then it will also discuss the difficulties while using the proposed tools of emergency kit.

Discussion

Swine flu has been reported repeatedly as zoonosis in humans, usually with limited distribution, rarely with a widespread distribution. It was only in 1976 that brought definitive evidence of contamination of a man with a pig virus. Given the weakness of epidemiological surveillance of this disease, the ECDC invites only consider the frequency of transmission to humans with great caution. Swine flu was first suspected to be related to human influenza during the 1918 flu pandemic, when pigs became sick at the same time when man also became sick. Possibility of tanks animal viruses was proposed in 1918 by S. Kohen, a veterinarian in the State of Iowa (Ponnampalan et al. 2011, pp. 76).

Virus H1N1 (Swine Flu) is easily spread from one person to another. Germs of H1N1 are contained in the saliva of a sick person and in the mucus of the nose and throat. The flu germs come from the eyes, nose and mouth of a sick person, and they enter the body of a healthy person through his eyes, nose or mouth. When a person with flu talks, coughs or sneezes, the air in tiny droplets. H1N1 is not caught from eating pork cooked and prepared.

The Government of Australia said they reserved enough doses of vaccine against H1N1 and administered to all those who need it. The government plans to vaccination in a certain order. Those people who are most at risk of catching H1N1 should come first to be cured. Then, those who are less at risk will be vaccinated. If a person has a chronic lung disease such as asthma or COPD, they have an ...