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This disease has an unusual "most spread" time of the year. While most viral infections are spread during the winter and cold months of spring, swine flu has a peak spreading time of April-May.
We still need a vaccine for this infection!
Actual "swine flu" is a respiratory disease found in pigs.
(where this disease got it's name)
This human "swine flu" is a mixture of the actual swine flu strain, bird flu, and asian human flu viruses.
How does it spread?
Swine flu is spread airborne. The best prevention against this disease is best prevented through normal virus preventions such as washing your hands.
Symptoms?
Fever, cough, sore throat, runny nose, headaches, vomiting, and diarrhea.
Treatment?
Normal flu antiviral drugs such as Tamiflu and Relenza are the most common treatments. However, most people recover from the swine flu without any treatment.
Controlling the spread?
Treatment of cholera consists mainly in replacement of lost fluids and salts. The use of oral rehydration salts (ORS) is the quickest and most efficient way of doing this. Most people recover in 3 to 6 days. If the infected person becomes severely dehydrated, intravenous fluids can be given. Antibiotics are not necessary to successfully treat a cholera patient.
Controlling the spread of swine flu is the same as almost any other viral infections. Washing your hands, avoid close contact with an infected person, avoiding touching your nose, mouth, eyes, etc., and even wearing a facemask around others if you know you are infected.
Fever and flu-like illness, shaking chills, headache, muscle aches, tiredness, nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. Malaria may cause anemia and yellow coloring of the skin and eyes, because of the loss of red blood cells. If not promptly treated, the infection can become severe and may cause kidney failure, seizures, mental confusion, coma, and death.
There is no vaccine for Malaria. However, there are many effective antimalarial drugs available. A doctor can decide on the best drug for each person based on travel plans, medical history, age, drug allergies, pregnancy status, and other factors. Malaria can also be prevented through using mosquito nets.
People get malaria by being bitten by an infective female Anopheles mosquito. Only Anopheles mosquitoes can transmit malaria and they must have been infected through a previous blood meal taken from an infected person. When a mosquito bites an infected person, a small amount of blood is taken in which contains microscopic malaria parasites. When the mosquito takes its next blood meal, these parasites mix with the mosquito's saliva and are injected into the person being bitten.
Because the malaria parasite is found in red blood cells, malaria can also be transmitted through blood transfusion, organ transplant, or the shared use of needles or syringes contaminated with blood.
Malaria should be treated early in its course before it becomes life threatening. alaria can be cured with prescription drugs. The type of drugs and length of treatment depend on the type of malaria, where the person was infected, their age, whether they are pregnant, and how sick they are at the start of treatment.
Swine flu is a viral inection(caused by a virus).
Swine flu is scientifically called H1N1. This virus originated in pigs, and then mutated into a disease that infected humans. Swine flu was new to humans in 2009, and affected mostly younger people. Swine flu is found in every country that has pigs in it, but has became prevalent in humans mainly in North America.
On average, 1,500 cases of malaria are reported every year in the United States, even though malaria has been eliminated from this country since the early 1950's.
3.3 billion people live in areas at risk of malaria transmission in 106 countries and territories.
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