Swine flu introduction

 Introduction:   

     Swine flu has been a great concern worldwide because of its rapid transmissibility and pandemic nature. Swine flu is caused by  "Influenza A virus".

How it spreads?

     It spreads through air when a infected or carrier person sneezes,coughs, or speaks. People can also catch the virus after touching an object that someone with the virus sneezed or coughed on.

use of masks

Who especially is at risk?

     Kids with chronic medical conditions(like diabetes, heart disease, or asthma or other lung problems), pregnant women who catch the flu are more likely to get sicker and increase the chances of complications during pregnancy, labor and delivery.

     In infants this can be life threatening.

Signs and Symptoms:

     Fever, cough, sore throat, body aches, headache, chills, fatigue and sometimes diarrhoea and vomiting. It also recruits secondary respiratory bacterial infections and pneumonia which makes it harder to breathe.

 

Treatment:

     Currently, no medicine is specifically developed to prevent or treat this new starin of swine flu, but it does appear that some of the antiviral medicines used to treat common seasonal flu may ease symptoms and shorten the duration of illness.