Dr. Anthony Fauci
President Obama warned Americans last week to be ready for an aggressive return of the Swine flu, based on findings from the H1N1 Influenza Preparedness Summit. The government is vigilantly preparing for a virus whose outstanding characteristic is its unpredictability.
The Swine flu, or H1N1, has confused and confounded experts from the start. Even its name was misleading causing needless slaughter of pigs in some countries and a general fear of eating pig products which peeved the 97 billion dollar US pork industry.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, who heads research on infectious diseases at the National Institutes of Health, has stated that we are not dealing with the typical seasonal flu. Usually the summer’s warm weather and high humidity makes it hard for a flu virus to survive. According to Vitals.com, Dr. Fauci received his medical degree at Cornell University and completed his internal medicine residency at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center.
But the spread has continued even though the official flu season ended in March. During the last week in June, Maryland confirmed 166 new cases and some summer camps are feeling the impact with campers being sent home midway. The Muscular Dystrophy Association canceled more than half of its week-long sessions as a preventative measure.
Doctors cannot predict how severe it will get, but Obama’s heavy hitters are working hard to be prepared. This big part of the preparation is the development of a vaccine. The US government has allocated 350 million dollars for H1N1 as well as the seasonal flu.
“I can say with confidence that we will have a vaccine that we will be making a decision on in the fall,” says Dr. Fauci. He reassures everyone that no vaccine will be released to the public until it is proven safe.
For the most part, health officials say, the symptoms of this flu strain have been mild to moderate, with nearly all recovering. The hope is that the virus will not mutate or become resistant to antiviral medication as government health officials continue to closely monitor the situation.
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arthritisremedy | July 17, 2009 at 12:05 pm
i always advice my kids to wear face masks when going into crowded areas. swine flu is really scary and i dont want my kids getting infected by it.
| Acne Treatment Info | September 6, 2009 at 11:10 pm
the H1N1 or Swine Flu Virus is very scary at first but now it is well controlled by vaccines and prevention by avoiding going into places with incidence of swine flu.
Craig | October 4, 2009 at 2:32 pm
Go to hell, Dr. Fauci. We all know your connections to the propaganda of this crap and how you’re co-patent owner of IL-2 in the vaccinations. You’re disgusting and you work for the bloated federal government.
anxietyboy | October 16, 2009 at 3:00 am
H1N1 or Swine Flu is a bit scary but it a good thing to note that this virus is not that very deadly.
Melody | November 22, 2009 at 9:45 am
the H1N1 or Swine Flu virus did put our country in disarray for quite sometime, it is good to know that at least it did not cause so many deaths.
Michelle Reyes | December 22, 2009 at 11:52 pm
One of my sisters got infected with H1N1 or more commonly known as Swine Flu. Fortunately, she did not have very high fever and she was able to recover fast .
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Jude | January 1, 2010 at 11:37 pm
My brother got infected with H1N1 or Swine Flu in Mexico. He got a mild fever and luckily he did not die.
| Acne Treatments Asia | January 4, 2010 at 9:48 pm
If you look at the pandemic of 1977, when H1N1 or Swine Flu re-emerged after a 20 year absence, there is no shift in age-related mortality pattern. The 1977 “pandemic” is, of course, not considered a true pandemic by experts today, for reasons that are not entierely consistent. It certainly was an antigenic shift and not an antigenic drift. As far as I have been able to follow the current events, the most significant factor seems to have been that most people, who were severely affected, were people with other medical conditions.
Beatrice | February 11, 2010 at 4:26 am
i think that in asian countries the Swine Flu did not spread rapidly compared to those countries that are located in colder climates. we should still be very thankful that the swine flu did not cause massive infections.