Croatia: two patients died with symptoms of influenza H1N1Croatia
It is important to realize that the influenza virus changes (mutates) constantly so that there are many strainsof H1N1 that differ subtly from each other. Swine flu is caused by one strain of H1N1, but there are many other strains. Some H1N1 strains only infect pigs. Others infect humans,...
H1N1 influenza A 2009 virus-associated acute severe respiratory symptoms in children with asthma: Response to early treatment with a combination of an antiviral drug and systemic corticosteroidsT., MatsuiT., IwataM., NanbuT., KatsunumaN., Kondo...
June 18, 2009 — About 7% of the population in areas highly affected by H1N1 virus are reporting influenza-like symptoms, a spokesperson for the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said during a press briefing today. Daniel Jernigan, MD, MPH, deputy director of the Influenza ...
How serious is the public health threat of a swine flu epidemic? What is swine flu? Swine flu, also known as 2009 H1N1 type A influenza, is a human disease. People get the disease from other people, not from pigs. The disease originally was nicknamed swine flu because the virus that ca...
Lessons from Pandemic H1N1 2009 to Improve Prevention, Detection, and Response to Influenza Pandemics from a One Health Perspective In April 2009, a novel influenza A subtype H1N1 triple reassortant virus (novel H1N1 2009), composed of genes from swine, avian, and human influenza A viru... P...
Type A has two different subtypes or strains, based on the chemical structure of the virus. The H1N1 swine flu virus is a type A influenza virus. Type B is not divided into subtypes. Both type A and type B are responsible for the seasonal influenza outbreaks. Outbreaks occur more ...
Pregnant women are strongly advised to be immunized because pregnancy increases a woman’s chance of developing complications from the influenza virus. Mothers also pass the protection onto their abies who would normally be too young to receive immunization individually. ...
Influenza, more commonly referred to as the flu, is a contagious respiratory illness cause by influenza viruses (and yes there are more than one strains of this illness). Common flu symptoms include, but are not limited to the following: fever, headache, tiredness, cough, sore throat, tired...
virus strains include influenza A subtypes H1N1, H1N2, H3N1, H3N2 as well as H2N3. Aside from the subtypes, influenza C also causes hog flu. To prevent the etiology of other diseases associated with the infection and to improve the quality of life of patients, it is important to know ...