Monday, April 27, 2009
new flu virus...
Everyone gets flu... at least once in their life... but.. i am not sure did anyone knows that flu virus.. actually changes from time to time.. season to season...
flu virus always changes...it's styles and patterns.. and becomes a new strain...
some strain only limit and infected to animals only due to the physical differences between animals and humans
and those that can cross over to human are the dangerous once... because our human body have no defenses against them and body defenses system do not know how to react to new flu virus stain...
SARS...flu virus.. in 2003.. i was just 18 years old that year... i have read from books..that those people didn't actually dead from the virus itself.. but due to the over reaction by our body defenses system..to protect an unknown virus...
based on the news past few days.. i can feel a familiar.. sense... as compared to SARS virus in 2003...
something is now happening in mexico...a new flu virus already confirmed and they called it 'swine flu virus' and i read from Wikipedia that this new virus is a combination of 4 types of virus into 1...they category as H1N1.
North American swine influenza, North American avian influenza,human influenza and swine influenza virus... i read finish this.. my hair stands already... 4 kinds of virus into 1 new virus...
at the moment.. in mexico.. there are 1,400 detected cases of the new virus.. and 86 people already dead of it...
sad to said.. suspected/confirmed cases also affected... other countries like USA,Canada,New zealand, Colombia, Spain, UK, France, Brazil and Israel...
when a new virus is spreading in 'human to human' methods.. there is only a few way to control it... most troublesome and most effective way is by isolation to a point that there is no 'human to human' transmission... which successful ended the SARS virus crisis in 2003.
creation of new injection, new medicine.. can also help.. but some virus are really very complicated.. it will take years to develop a fully cured medication...
Every country around the world are now stepping up the defenses against the new virus...such as temperature check..and for those who just came to singapore via plane,sea and the causeway...after 8am today.. they will be facing alot of health checking procedures..same as during the SARS period..
I hope..this virus crsis can be controlled.. specially at the moment.. with economy crisis... everything seems to happen at the wrong moment...