Health News: The Possible Return Of Swine Influenza In The Fall, The Health Authorities Of The United States On Alert
While influenza virus H1N1 pork continues to decline and wax in various parts of the country, health authorities of the United States said they were better to know that they think about new officers returning from the flu during the autumn season.
The reason for urgency: some recent pandemics have been “Herald” waves “of influenza strain that surface at the end of flu season, to return with a much more serious consequences for the next flu season.
“We understand that sometimes an influenza pandemic to come in waves,” said Dr. Anne Schuchat years U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Interim Deputy Director for Science and Public Health, told a press conference on Tuesday in the second half of the day. “The most serious pandemic of 1918 was a wave of Herald moderate spring and a second much more serious wave of fall. While the terrible experience of 1918 in our heads. ”
According to some estimates the global number of deaths since the beginning of 1918 – often called “Spanish flu” – more than 40 million people.
“We are indeed at an accelerated pace over the next eight to 10 weeks to see how we can, as head of the virus in the southern hemisphere [where the flu season has started], and strengthen our Planning for the massive growth of the disease, which we expect here in the fall, “Schuchat said.
Scientists have to know if the virus of swine influenza H1N1 mutates and against anti-viral drugs, or easily transmissible between humans, she said.
Schuchat said, there is no way of knowing now whether the H1N1 virus is virulent, if – and when – once again in the Northern Hemisphere winter approaches. “Whether it is dominated by the virus of seasonal influenza, or if they are not now,” she says.
So far, 7927 is confirmed and probable cases of infection in the United States, the CDC reported Wednesday. In most cases are mild and the patient again.
In the CDC reports 11 deaths related to swine influenza, and all the victims were the main health problems before they are infected.
World Health Organization said Wednesday, 48 countries reported 13,398 cases including 95 deaths, mostly in Mexico, where the epidemic began.
In the CDC said last week that progress had been made in establishing H1N1 vaccine against swine flu, with two promising candidates for the use of viruses in this plan. And U. S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said Friday that the federal government has allocated 1 billion dollars in research for a vaccine against swine influenza.
In the United States, in most cases, the swine flu will not be worse than seasonal influenza. The study showed that the virus of swine influenza is still sensitive to two antiviral drugs Tami flu and Relenza, according to the CDC.
In the CDC said some older people have immunity against the H1N1 virus of swine influenza, as well as possible impacts on the various strains of influenza H1N1 in circulation until 1957. To date, 64 percent of cases of swine influenza in the United States were among people aged 5 to 24, while only 1 percent of the population over 65 years, officials said last week.