Swine flu

I think everyone has been hearing about swine flu from the last four months. The summer should be generally free of flu but this new H1N1 virus is spreading the flu in summer. I had been watching the news saying that India has been effected with swine flu in the last couple of weeks with 12 deaths reported. Its very sad that most of the cases are NRI s who went to India from Us.

H1N1 is actually more dangerous than other flu virus because this virus emerged due to genetic reassortment from 4 different strains of flu virus(One from birds, one from Human and two that circulate in pigs) and right now we don't have any vaccine available for swine flu. Novavax biotech company has already produced a vaccine for H1N1 but the production and release of drug into the market may take at least 6 more months from now. I also heard that cadila pharma from Ahemadabad,India which has a share in Novavax also produced the drug and use of this drug for two times with in three weeks can save an individual from swine flu virus. However this is a long way to go so everyone should take care and keep yourself out of the virus. One more thing to say here is the virus does not spread from pigs to humans. It spreads from one human to another only. If anyone is infected with virus take care that you do not go out into the crowds and keep yourself isolated from others including your family members. The most effected are the children and old people because the immune system is weak in them. This highly risked category must be at caution and take a lot of care like washing your hands frequently and use a alocohol based sanitizers etc.

Swine Flu is spreading very fast in India, So Indians take care of yourself and get rid of the virus.......