Fraudulent swine flu aids on the internet

America's FDA or Food and Drug Administration has reportedly
been looking out for fraudulent opportunistic businesses that are try
to take advantage of the current panic around swine flu, to sell a few
health supplements that they claim will help cure the disease. The FDA
made public announcements against one internet business recently,
Rebuilder Medical, for offering a fraudulent swine flu protection pack
with shampoos, lotions and other bathroom essentials that it calls
SilverCure. The contents of the pack are
claimed to be affected because they contain trace quantities of
silver.The FDA reminds the public that silver is not scientifically
proved by the FDA to help in any way with swine flu; it is therefore
not legal to claim such benefits in marketing literature. The FDA later
warned that website to retract these claims immediately under penalty
of criminal proceedings.
Several other websites are said to be under investigation by the FDA
for making unverifiable claims for their products, for their abilities
to fight swine flu. There are health supplements being sold with tall
tales to support their benefits against swine flu, prescription
medicines sold over-the-counter, and various flu defense kits. This is
the reason, the FDA claims, that a panic over disease is never a good
idea. There will always be a confidence tricksters waiting to take
advantage of the anxious and the vulnerable, trying to make a buck with
health scams such as these in a climate of panic. The problem is so bad
that the government is asking the public to bring to its attention any
dubious product advertising out there claiming benefits against swine
flu.
There are many businesses online sale products impregnated with silver,
colloidal silver or something else, that they claim will help you
against swine flu. None of these however has any reasonable grounds for
such a claim. An online business called Swine Flu Gone, sells an ionic
silver spray that is as fraudulent as it can get, with shameful claims
of powers against swine flu.
Another website sells secret concoctions of colloidal silver that it
claims the CDC withholds from the public. These websites also sell
swine flu kits with gloves and wipes at prices that go way beyond
unreasonable. The public may not be aware of it, but simple devices
such as gloves and surgical masks are considered by the government to
be medical products; they must therefore pass approval. It is not safe
to buy surgical masks under the impression that they're just pieces of
cloth that anybody can make. The government does not recommend that the
general public use masks and gloves all the time as a way of protecting
themselves. These are only recommended for people who are direct
contact with those who are sick. It is up to the public to stay alert
to people who take advantage of public health
situations.

What Are Symptoms Of Swine Flu

While the biological makeup of birds provides the most natural habitat for influenza viruses, they have for long found a way to survive in mammals, pigs mainly, at least since 1847.

Their philosophy is that aggressively tackling the disease before it even begins to establish itsel, is the best way to make sure it does not take root. The CDC states that this virus spreads in the same way that the regular seasonal flu virus does. If final testing turns out to be promising and functional, production could begin this very summer for use in the population.

Treatment options for swine flu The last time that a flu caused much worldwide panic was in the year 1918.
The blow to the country's tourism industry is reverberating across the economy shutting down one industry after the other. Countries around the world at this time are focused on building up their reserves of swine flu antivirals such as Tamiflu. Swine flu infections show up symptoms that are not all that different from symptoms of the familiar flu bug: a fever, a cough, a runny nose, body aches, and so on. Tamiflu is a CDC-approved treatment course for swine flu, suspected or confirmed. The World Health Organization and the UK's Health Protection Agency have studiously avoided recommending masks such as these for use by the population at large.

If the cough of an infected person were to release droplets containing the swine flu virus over a surface, the virus would remain alive and able to infect anyone who touches the surface, for the next eight hours.
The H1N1 virus , ever since it made the transfer from swine to humans a month ago, has infected 11,000 people, and killed over 100 in 42 countries. Authorities also plan to hand out medicines to all children and schools who seem to be demonstrating symptoms of swine flu. It is hoped that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention can have a final version ready to deliver to pharmaceutical companies around the world soon, to help them begin manufacturing vaccines for use in hospitals.