AH1N1

It’s started in April 2009 in Mexico and it’s was called as pig flu. WHO called is as swine flu and later AH1N1. The scientific name didn’t give much impact physiologically to the citizens compared to “pig flu” and that might be one of the reason on why even until today the international community fail to take the virus as a very serious pandemic and threatening the world security. AH1N1 virus that has infected humans around is thought to be an altered strain of influenza a virus that has previously been identified as a respiratory disease commonly seen in pigs. It was very rare for human infections except in 1918 where 20 million people died worldwide due to the virus. The most common symptoms are fever, fatigue, lack of appetite, coughing, runny nose, sore throat, vomiting and diarrhea. Until to date more than 1000 people dead globally and no indications it’s going to end in near future. We need to take more precautions including absent from attending the public or social gathering, office and even schools. So far no vaccine identified and the earliest vaccine expected by end of the year which by then we might face the huge number of dead.