Obama's brush with swine flu
It has been reported
that a famous anthropologist, Felipe Solis who met with President
Barack Obama recently, died shortly after the encounter, of a disease
that looks remarkably like swine flu. This has caused quite a sensation
around, but the White House has made it known that the health of the
president was never compromised, though he continues to take care of
the nation's swine flu concerns very seriously.
Advisers to the president are said to have been concerned when his
schedule to visit to Mexico last month coincided with the time that
swine flu first made itself known. The anthropologist is reported to
have taken the president on a tour of a Mexican museum a week before he
died. It was later announced by the Mexican government that the illness
that Mr.Solis suffered from was not swine flu.
White House announces that it should be clear by now that Mr. Obama was
never at risk, since the swine flu virus lets its presence be known not
long after it enters the body. The virus has a seven-day incubation
period; since it has been far longer than a week, since Mr. Obama
visited Mexico, it is argued that Mr. Obama was never infected. Mr.
Obama's visit to Mexico lasted for not even a day; he only stopped
there on his way to a conference in Trinidad and Tobago. The president
took a little criticism at this time for his casual vacation-like
demeanor playing golf when faced with such worldwide anxiety over the
disease.
The White House announced recently that the government was beginning to
use its stockpile of antiviral medicines to keep hospitals and health
care clinics around the country well-prepared. To help keep the disease
out, security along the border with Mexico has been stepped up. The
White House also let it be known that there was no need to worry about
catching swine flu from eating pork products.
The president offered Mexico all the support that the US could possibly
give. The White House has also announced that an outbreak of the
disease was possible along the border with Mexico and said that it was
making efforts to lessen the impact of the disease along the border.
People have been urged to help protect themselves by washing hands
frequently, and staying home if they happened to become sick, to avoid
infecting other people. The CDC has announced that research is underway
to produce a vaccine that can help the population protect itself from
possible swine flu attack.

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So for now, Mexico is about the only country that has thrown its weight behind this device. Mexico has tried to stem the epidemic with free masks handed out to the masses; but if masks are not all that effective, do such handouts only serve to alarm people with intimations of seriousness? Today's pandemic scale with swine flu, is at Phase 5, a step short of a full pandemic declaration. Today's pandemic scale with swine flu, is at Phase 5, a step short of a full pandemic declaration. Do face masks protect against swine flu One of the most surreal images to enter the public consciousness in recent times is the image of crowds of everyday people in Mexico milling about in surgical masks to keep out the swine flu. People need to be alert and to take up measures such as washing their hands after they have been out among people, and keeping away from crowded areas.

The CDC states that this virus spreads in the same way that the regular seasonal flu virus does.
But this is not to be taken as an invitation for anyone to take Tamiflu just as a preventive measure. It is not known at this time how often swine flu attacks with serious effects. The only thing that remains to be done is for countries to rationalize their policies on how best to use the supplies they have. The virus came to the associated with swine because early tests revealed that the genetic structure of this virus is strikingly similar to the genetic structure found in influenza viruses that attack populations of pigs in North America. It is now known that administering Tamiflu right after the appearance of swine flu symptoms in a person, keeps the virus from reproducing, and gives the patient's immune system time to get back on its feet.

But this is not to be taken as an invitation for anyone to take Tamiflu just as a preventive measure.
In addition to the primary antivirals such as Tamiflu, doctors may order drugs for the attendant symptoms of headache and fever and nausea. The WHO feels that the mild attacks that this flu brings on would send people into a panic if there was a pandemic tag attached to it. It is also putting out plenty of supplies for other countries. The WHO is of opinion that governments across the world should hold on to their antiviral drug stocks for patients who seem to be most at risk. Cleaning measures for a home safe from swine flu Studies reveal that the swine flu virus has a long survival expectancy outside of a host body. Tourism now is out for the count with losses in excess of billion over this summer.