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What exactly causes Swine Flu?
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Tatyana
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It isn't turning out to be that scary.
New strains develop all the time, it is called antigenic drift, and it isn't that different from H1 N1.
For this virus to have the ability to be highly infectious, it seems to have lost a great deal of its virulence.
What is the news in the US telling you?
It isn't that scary here, everyone is recovering quite quickly. Some didn't even realise they had the swine flu.
New strains develop all the time, it is called antigenic drift, and it isn't that different from H1 N1.
For this virus to have the ability to be highly infectious, it seems to have lost a great deal of its virulence.
What is the news in the US telling you?
It isn't that scary here, everyone is recovering quite quickly. Some didn't even realise they had the swine flu.
Tatyana
Elite Mentor
I listened to the WHO press conference today, and they stated that quite a few of the cases had not been confirmed by labs.
For example, only something like 40 of the 150 dead in Mexico have been confirmed due to the flu.
They keep saying 'wait for the labs, don't jump to conclusions'
They are also talking about shifting anti-virals from nation to nation if necessary.
The UK has been preparing for a pandemic for five years, there is enough anti-virals for 50% of the populations, and we do have the national vaccine program.
There was a variant of H1 N1 in this season's flu jab, so the immune system should recognise one of the spikes and mount a much faster acquired response.
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