3. What is swine flu?
• “swine flu (an acute and highly
contagious respiratory disease of swine
caused by the orthomyxovirus thought to
be the same virus that caused the 1918
influenza pandemic)”
4. What is swine flu?
• A respiratory disease of pigs caused by
type A influenza virus,
• Causes high rates of illness and low rates
of death in pigs,
• Most out breaks happen during the fall
and winter
• The swine flu (A influenza N1H1 flu) was
first isolated from pigs in 1930.
5. Definitions:
• Antigenic drift- means by which flu viruses
constantly reshuffle their composition
• Pandemic- Threw human populations over
a large region or worldwide.
• H1N1- Novel influenza A virus called
swine flu- a new strain
6. Where is swine flu at?
• Swine flu has reached 74 countries and
has infected nearly 29,000 people.
• Some countries infected is Europe, Chile,
Australia, Japan, and the United States.
7. Origin
• Believe to have started in Veracruz,
Mexico or the town of La Gloria.
• Spread to the US and other countries.
• First case was in February, First case in
the United States was in late March.
• 1st death was in the United States of May
20, 2009
8. Causes:
• Originally started with pigs passed to
humans- probably working with pigs then
human to human.
• Pigs- unsanitary conditions, poverty and
public health laws don’t help to prevent it
or contain it to a country or community
9. Causes:
• With travel- flying- easy to spread quickly
to people, usually isn’t passed to humans
not transmitted by eating pork.
10. Symptoms:
Some Symptoms are:
• Chills,
• Vomiting,
• Runny nose,
• Fever over 100 degrees,
• Diarrhea,
• Muscle aches
YOUR BASIC COMMAN FLU SYMPTOMS!!!
13. What we are doing to make sure it
does not spread:
• June 11, 2009 World Health Organization
(who) raised pandemic alert level to Phase
6- indicates worldwide,
• Airline passengers screened to be sure
they are not sick,
• Harder on elderly, pregnant women,
young children, or those with asthma,
diabetes, heart disease may cause death.
14. Treatment:
• Keep informed
• Everyday actions- wash your hands often
with soap & water use hand cleaners
• Cover mouth and nose when coughing or
sneezing.
• Avoid touching eyes, nose, mouth to not
spread germs.
15. Treatment:
• Stay home if sick,
• Follow public health guidelines when
schools or businesses close,
• Avoid crowds,
• Deal with stress and anxiety,
• Avoid kissing or touching someone who is
sick
16. Research:
• Developing a vaccine,
• Planning how to vaccinate large groups of
people- schools, etc.
• Make available for everybody,
• Pilot programs- testing to see if will need 1
or 2 doses of vaccine.
17. References:
• www.energybullentin.net/node/48801
• www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/
• Http://diseases-viruses.suite101.com
• www.msnbc.msn.com
• www.top-buzz.net
• wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?
s=swine%20flu
• The Denver Post, July 11,2009 Obesity may
be factor in swine-flu severity
