Doctors Told About The New Flu.
This year's flu mellow may be off to a somnolent start nationwide, but infection rates are spiking in the south-central United States, where five deaths have already been reported in Texas. And the controlling strain of flu so far has been H1N1 "swine" flu, which triggered the pandemic flu in 2009, federal salubriousness officials said. "That may change, but uprightness now most of the flu is H1N1," said Dr Michael Young, a medical catchpole with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's influenza division. "It's the same H1N1 we have been light of the past couple of years and that we really started to see in 2009 during the pandemic".
States reporting increasing levels of flu movement include Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas. Young eminent that H1N1 flu is different from other types of flu because it tends to strike younger adults harder than older adults. Flu is typically a bigger portent to people 65 and older and very junior children and people with chronic medical conditions, such as heart disease and diabetes. This year, because it's an H1N1 mature so far, we are seeing more infections in younger adults".
So "And some of these folks have underlying conditions that put them at peril for hospitalization or death. This may be surprising to some folks, because they forget the citizens that H1N1 hits". The good news is that this year's flu vaccine protects against the H1N1 flu. "For citizenry who aren't vaccinated yet, there's still time - they should go out and get their vaccine," he advised.
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Showing posts with label pandemic. Show all posts
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Tuesday 16 May 2017
Personal Hygiene Slows The Epidemic Of Influenza
Personal Hygiene Slows The Epidemic Of Influenza.
Simple steps, such as pointer washing and covering the mouth, could analyse helpful in reducing pandemic flu transmission, experts say. However, in the May spring of the American Journal of Infection Control, a University of Michigan swotting team cautions that more research is needed to assess the true effectiveness of so called "non-pharmaceutical interventions" aimed at slowing the varnish of pandemic flu. Such measures contain those not based on vaccines or antiviral treatments.
On an individual level, these measures can include frequent washing of the hands with soap, wearing a facemask and/or covering the stoma while coughing or sneezing, and using alcohol-based boost sanitizers. On a broader, community-based level, other influenza-containment measures can include shape closings, the restriction of public gatherings, and the promotion of home-based work schedules, the researchers noted. "The new influenza A (H1N1) pandemic may provide us with an opportunity to address many enquire gaps and ultimately create a broad, comprehensive strategy for pandemic mitigation," lead maker Allison E Aiello, of the University of Michigan School of Public Health, said in a newsflash release. "However, the emergence of this pandemic in 2009 demonstrated that there are still more questions than answers".
She added: "More investigation is urgently needed". The call for more investigation into the potential benefit of non-pharmaceutical interventions stems from a still in nappies analysis of 11 prior studies funded by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and conducted between 2007 and 2009. The known review found that the public adopted some preservative measures more readily than others. Hand washing and mouth covering, for example, were more commonly practiced than the wearing of facemasks.
Simple steps, such as pointer washing and covering the mouth, could analyse helpful in reducing pandemic flu transmission, experts say. However, in the May spring of the American Journal of Infection Control, a University of Michigan swotting team cautions that more research is needed to assess the true effectiveness of so called "non-pharmaceutical interventions" aimed at slowing the varnish of pandemic flu. Such measures contain those not based on vaccines or antiviral treatments.
On an individual level, these measures can include frequent washing of the hands with soap, wearing a facemask and/or covering the stoma while coughing or sneezing, and using alcohol-based boost sanitizers. On a broader, community-based level, other influenza-containment measures can include shape closings, the restriction of public gatherings, and the promotion of home-based work schedules, the researchers noted. "The new influenza A (H1N1) pandemic may provide us with an opportunity to address many enquire gaps and ultimately create a broad, comprehensive strategy for pandemic mitigation," lead maker Allison E Aiello, of the University of Michigan School of Public Health, said in a newsflash release. "However, the emergence of this pandemic in 2009 demonstrated that there are still more questions than answers".
She added: "More investigation is urgently needed". The call for more investigation into the potential benefit of non-pharmaceutical interventions stems from a still in nappies analysis of 11 prior studies funded by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and conducted between 2007 and 2009. The known review found that the public adopted some preservative measures more readily than others. Hand washing and mouth covering, for example, were more commonly practiced than the wearing of facemasks.
Thursday 24 March 2016
Protection From H1N1 Flu Is The Same As From Seasonal Flu
Protection From H1N1 Flu Is The Same As From Seasonal Flu.
The blockbuster H1N1 flu seems to appropriate many characteristics with the seasonal flu it has pretty much replaced, a new study indicates. "Our results are further confirmation that 2009 pandemic H1N1 and seasonal flu have nearly the same transmission dynamics. People seem to be similarly transmissible when ill with either pandemic or seasonal flu, and the viruses are likely to spread in similar ways," said Benjamin Cowling, escort author of a study appearing in the June 10 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
The favourable news is that this means the preventive measures health authorities have been recommending, such as ordinary hand washing, should be equally effective against pandemic flu. "Influenza is very difficult to contain, but in the air measures including the availability of pandemic H1N1 vaccines should be able to mitigate the worst of any further epidemics," added Cowling, who is an helper professor at the School of Public Health at the University of Hong Kong.
Cowling and his colleagues followed 284 household members of 99 individuals who had tested incontestable for H1N1. Eight percent of the household contacts also hew ill with the H1N1 virus, about the same transmission rate as seen for the seasonal flu (9 percent), the researchers found.
Viral shedding (when the virus replicates and leaves the body), as well as the prototype of tangible sickness, were also similar for the two types of flu. The "attack rate" (meaning the suitableness of people in the entire population who get sick) for H1N1 was higher than that for seasonal flu and the balance was most pronounced among children. The authors hypothesized that this might be due to the fact that younger tribe seem to have lower natural immunity to the virus.
The blockbuster H1N1 flu seems to appropriate many characteristics with the seasonal flu it has pretty much replaced, a new study indicates. "Our results are further confirmation that 2009 pandemic H1N1 and seasonal flu have nearly the same transmission dynamics. People seem to be similarly transmissible when ill with either pandemic or seasonal flu, and the viruses are likely to spread in similar ways," said Benjamin Cowling, escort author of a study appearing in the June 10 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
The favourable news is that this means the preventive measures health authorities have been recommending, such as ordinary hand washing, should be equally effective against pandemic flu. "Influenza is very difficult to contain, but in the air measures including the availability of pandemic H1N1 vaccines should be able to mitigate the worst of any further epidemics," added Cowling, who is an helper professor at the School of Public Health at the University of Hong Kong.
Cowling and his colleagues followed 284 household members of 99 individuals who had tested incontestable for H1N1. Eight percent of the household contacts also hew ill with the H1N1 virus, about the same transmission rate as seen for the seasonal flu (9 percent), the researchers found.
Viral shedding (when the virus replicates and leaves the body), as well as the prototype of tangible sickness, were also similar for the two types of flu. The "attack rate" (meaning the suitableness of people in the entire population who get sick) for H1N1 was higher than that for seasonal flu and the balance was most pronounced among children. The authors hypothesized that this might be due to the fact that younger tribe seem to have lower natural immunity to the virus.
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