Swine flu vaccine: pregnant women must be vaccinated. Pregnant women could be one of the first groups to receive recommended vaccines for new flu H1N1, which is commonly known as swine flu, because of their unusually high risk of death as a result of infection. On US-266 swine-flu related deaths for which the Center for Disease Control and Prevention detailed information, was 15 pregnant women, the Associated Press reported this morning. This is 6% of the dead, even though women constitute only 1% of the population. Most of the women were healthy before contracted the virus.
CDC is an advisory committee for vaccination will meet in Atlanta on Wednesday to set priorities, which should get a new vaccine, which may begin to be available by the end of October. The group is expected to follow the recommendation of the World Health Organization that health workers who are on the front lines of caring for infected patients, be the first to receive the vaccine. Now, it seems likely that pregnant women will be more.
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Some cases of swine flu that occurred in the United States rise to the suspicion of close links between Obesity and the risk of exposure to swine flu that can result in death.
Statistics from the swine flu sufferer, found that people who have a severe Obesity tends to be more exposed to the disease.
But health officials argued, people with Obesity is more difficult to confront the disease of swine flu due to asthma and other disturbances associated with excessive body weight.
Obesity has not previously been linked to factors as the seasonal flu.
However, based on research that was released on Friday (10 / 7); the doctor’s health breaks down the 10 patients in the swine flu Michigan, United States. They treated intensively in Ann Arbor since the end of May to early June. Three of them died.
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Even though the distribution be calculated quickly, but the swine flu will not be as big killer ‘Spanish Flu’ which the world in the year 1918.
It was submitted by an Australian expert, Professor Robert Booy, head of clinical research at the National Center for Immunization Research &; Surveillance (NCIRS), Australia.
Told Booy, swine flu outbreak could develop into the world but the government and medical science is far more capable than the 1918 set. Around 50 million people died due to exposure of Spanish Flu.
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Swine flu refers to influenza caused by any virus of the family Orthomyxoviridae, that is endemic to pig (swine) populations. Strains endemic in swine are called swine influenza virus (SIV), and all known strains of SIV are classified as Influenzavirus A (common) or Influenzavirus C (rare). Influenzavirus B has not been reported in swine. All three clades, Influenzavirus A, B, and C, are endemic in humans.
People who work with poultry and swine, especially people with intense exposures, are at risk of infection from these animals if the animals carry a strain that is also able to infect humans. SIV can mutate into a form that allows it to pass from human to human. The strain responsible for the 2009 swine flu outbreak is believed to have undergone this mutation.
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