Swine flu danger not as common flu
Posted on October 11, 2009
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Although the World Health Organization has announced a global influenza pandemic warning level increased from 4 to the current five, but the study of so-called “swine flu” virus, scientists agree that, at least from the current point of view, this mixed type of epidemic of a cold and did not develop into a kind of similar to 1918, highly lethal diseases, and its hazard to human life or even worse than normal influenza great.
According to the U.S. “Los Angeles Times” April 29, U.S. College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Wisconsin molecular virologist Christopher – Wednesday, Dr. Olsen said: “We should not forget the fact that the normal seasonal flu pandemic is also a great public health problem, it is only in the United States claimed thousands of lives, the world’s consequent death toll is more far more than that. ”
Dr. Olsen delivered the opinion in the same day that Texas authorities announced that an approximately 2-year-old boy carrying the virus in a hospital in Houston on Monday died.
Olsen said: “When someone dies he may the deceased’s family and friends feel sad, but we need to correctly deal with this matter.”
Reported that influenza viruses can not be expected, and its species may have a mutation at any time – or to become more moderate, or to become more dangerous. However, more and more from the genetics laboratory, epidemiological samples, and a simple mathematical calculation of evidence shows that the current flu outbreak is likely that this will not develop into the worst results.
Memphis, Tennessee, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital influenza virologist Richard – Whitby, said: “This virus lethal 1918 virus is quite different compared to the fundamental.” He said the 1918 outbreak of That field of influenza killed about 50 million lives.
However, at the beginning of the current virus has just been identified when the 1918 virus, it is quite frightening similar characteristics. Because both are near the end of flu season in the spring when the place, are easy to hit the young people rather than young and old people. They belong to the same H1N1, the same type with two key proteins, these two proteins to a large extent the virus has the ability to spread infectious diseases.
At present, scientists have found that the current virus and in 1918 certain differences between the virus, but the important difference between them remains unclear.
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