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Anonymous asked in HealthDiseases & ConditionsInfectious Diseases · 1 decade ago

what are the starting symptoms of swine flu?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Swine flu is pretty much just the regular flu. What symptoms are different? The swine flu virus just uses the pigs living habitats as a petri dish to grow, no one can get the virus from eating pork. Just because it came from another country doesn't mean it's an epidemic. Medicine in Mexico is not as advanced as it is here in the US, therefore the "swine flu" is much more deadly there then it is here, as would any common disease. Over 200000 people a year are diagnosed with the flu and about 36000 die from the regular FLU. Why doesn't anyone freak out about that? How many deaths have their been from the swine flu since it's "outbreak"? It was first discovered in March and as of July there has been 33,902 confirmed "swine flu" cases and 170 deaths. So that's been about 5 months, almost half the year. Multiply by two it still doesn't even come close to the amount of deaths caused by the regular "flu". And of course it would be more serious in children... everything is more serious when it comes to children!!! If you feel ill, just take your medicine and keep warm and don't share things... basic rules of life when it comes to wanting to stay healthy and sick-free????

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    5 years ago

    what's swine flu? it rather is a respiration disease affecting pigs it is brought about by making use of form A influenza virus. maximum outbreaks happen for the duration of the late fall and iciness months, resembling influenza outbreaks in human beings. Does it impression human beings? Swine flu viruses very not often impression human beings. even although, sporadic human infections with swine flu have befell. those circumstances often happen in those with direct exposure to pigs. How does it unfold to human beings? It spreads to human beings particularly via touch with contaminated pigs. Can human beings seize swine flu from ingesting pork? there is at present no information to point that swine flu could be transmitted to human beings from ingesting pork or pork products that have been thoroughly cooked. What are the indicators? the indicators of swine flu are resembling the indicators of prevalent influenza. An early symptom is extreme fever, and this is accompanied by making use of cough, sore throat, runny nostril, and each so often breathlessness some days later. How can the infections be clinically determined? A respiration specimen could be gathered interior the 1st 4 to 5 days of ailment, whilst the contaminated individual is maximum possibly to be laying off the virus. even although, some, exceptionally little ones, might shed the virus for 10 days or longer. What drugs are accessible to handle the an infection? There are 4 distinctive antiviral drugs that are authorized to be utilized in Singapore: amantadine, rimantadine, oseltamivir and zanamivir. at an analogous time as maximum swine flu viruses have been vulnerable to all 4 drugs, the main contemporary swine flu viruses remoted from human beings are proof against amantadine and rimantadine. in the present day, the U. S. CDC recommends using oseltamivir (Tamiflu) or zanamivir (Relenza) for the medical care and/or prevention of an infection with swine flu viruses.

  • 1 decade ago

    Same as the regular flu, but for some people it can be more severe, especially with younger people.

  • 1 decade ago

    Same as normal flu

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  • 1 decade ago

    My brother had this. First it started with a severe stomach, abdominal pain. Then he laid down and said his head was hurting, the worse headache he's ever had. Then fatigue set it. After he slept he woke up with a fever and was running a temp. After that he was constantly coughing up flem and blowing his nose and coughing. He looked drained and tired.

  • 1 decade ago

    you start to like pigs a lot...

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