H1N1 and India

H1N1 or swine flu is spreading around the world in am alarming manner.This virus is something that seen in pigs and now its spreading to human beings also..but in an alarming dangerous manner.The wikipedia tells that "In the 2009 flu pandemic, the virus isolated from patients in the United States was found to be made up of genetic elements from four different flu viruses – North American Mexican influenza, North American avian influenza, human influenza, and swine influenza virus typically found in Asia and Europe – "an unusually mongrelised mix of genetic sequences." This new strain appears to be a result of re assortment of human influenza and swine influenza viruses, in all four different strains of subtype H1N1.


Preliminary genetic characterization found that the hemagglutinin (HA) gene was similar to that of swine flu viruses present in U.S. pigs since 1999, but the neuraminidase (NA) and matrix protein (M) genes resembled versions present in European swine flu isolates. The six genes from American swine flu are themselves mixtures of swine flu, bird flu, and human flu viruses.While viruses with this genetic makeup had not previously been found to be circulating in humans or pigs, there is no formal national surveillance system to determine what viruses are circulating in pigs in the U.S.
On June 11, 2009, the WHO declared an H1N1 pandemic, moving the alert level to phase 6, marking the first global pandemic since the 1968 Hong Kong flu.

Ok..I know most of us knows something bout these virus and steps to prevent them.eh???
My post here is to make some statements on how India reacted to this disaster?The Ministry of Health tried to reduce the fear of this disease at first.But later,soon after the first death announced in Pune due to H1N1,the people started fearing the disease.Even common fever or cold started to be considered as H1N1 and sometimes it resulted in death of some people as these fevers lead to pneumonia and all other diseases.A normal healthy man can be saved from the disease ,if he maintains the prescribed by the doctors against H1N1.

Normally,the causalities are children and old aged people as they lacks self defense mechanism against diseases.Many causalities are announced in the major It hubs of India like Mumbai,Pune,Bengalluru,Chennai etc.The climatic conditions and all leads to the increase of the number of patients.Also,there is chance of spreading of diseases as loads of people lives in these places.And as there are International Airports there,there is chance of spreading of viruses from foreigners.Now its our payback time.We should also start checking the foreigners like they are checking the people from Asian countries,suspecting them as terrorists
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Hey,this disease is also powerful than normal bombings and other stuffs of terrorists.As bombings affects a particular place,this disease spreads in no time to all over.So the officials should be aware and cautious enough to stop spreading this disease.