jueves, 30 de abril de 2009

Swine flu: WHO asks the world to prepare for a pandemic

Barns, sheds and warehouses industrial hospitals in 1918

Read this if you want to know the origin of new evils, something that, according to WHO, it may become pandemic.

As the scientists say the H1N1 human animals transferred to the pig in 1918: the influenza "Spanish." Since then the estimated number of deaths globally by direct cause of the Spanish Flu is around 50 to 100 million. This pandemic level 5, which ran from 1918 to 1919 not only exceeded the number of Black victims, but also even increased several times the number killed by the 1st World War, so that 2.5 % of the population perished and 20% had this subtype of influenza virus, which scientists call H1N1 mortality rate is hundreds of times higher than the common subtypes of influenza:

"... The main flu virus H1N1 and H3N2 swine are, and both are our gifts. H1N1 is transferred to the pigs during the first great pandemic of the twentieth century, the Spanish flu of 1918. The H3N2 is the third move, the Hong Kong flu of 1968. Both are now the two main categories of human seasonal influenza. The latest report on influenza A viruses circulating in the human population, published by the CDC in Atlanta (U.S. Centers for infection control), in the U.S. found 90% of H1N1 and 10% of H3N2. And these two serotypes are the World Health Organization (WHO) recommends to the conventional vaccine this season 2009/2010. The reason is the same as in the case of pigs: the pandemics of the twentieth century. "

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