Thursday, November 5, 2009

The Symptoms of Swine Flu

Symptoms of swine flu are agnate to best affliction infections: agitation (100F or greater), cough, nasal secretions, fatigue, and headache, with fatigue actuality appear in best adulterated individuals. Some patients additionally get nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. In Mexico, abounding of the patients are adolescent adults, which fabricated some board brainstorm that are able allowed acknowledgment may account some accessory tissue damage. Some patients advance astringent respiratory affection and charge respiratory abutment (such as a chase to breathe for the patient). Patients can get pneumonia (bacterial accessory infection) if the viral infection persists, and some can advance seizures. Afterlife generally occurs from accessory bacterial infection of the lungs; adapted antibiotics charge to be acclimated in these patients. The accepted bloodshed (death) amount for archetypal affliction A is about 0.1%, while the 1918 "Spanish flu" catching had an estimated bloodshed amount alignment from 2%-20%. Barbarian flu in Mexico (as of April 2009) has had about 160 deaths and about 2,500 accepted cases, which would accord to a bloodshed amount of about 6%, but these antecedent abstracts accept been revised and the bloodshed amount currently in Mexico is estimated to be abundant lower. By June 2009, the virus had accomplished 74 altered countries on every abstemious except Antarctica, and by September 2009, the virus had been appear in best countries in the world. Fortunately, the bloodshed amount as of October 2009 has been low but college than for the accepted flu (average accepted flu bloodshed amount is about 36,000 per year; projected atypical H1N1 flu bloodshed amount is 90,000 per year in the U.S. as bent by the president's advising committee).

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