Japan: Not assured even after the peak. The real fear of the flu.

2009年2月12日 10:00

February 10, the number of flu patients, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, one day a week, one per hospital, from 37.45, to 35.62, but has declined little. The flu epidemic will peak, the convergence tends to decrease, and continue to strive to prevent, it said. A flu epidemic this season, the resistance to Tamiflu, the virus is resistant to work or not, may appear very possible future avian flu.

Of this year's flu epidemic, A type is said to have been the Soviet Union.
The influenza type A, B-, C-in, C-端折RU but it is not very popular in Japan that is primarily type A influenza, A in Hong Kong, and port city of Hokkaido-Soviet It was somewhat of an epidemic. However, the popular Soviet-type A virus, where it may have been causing gene mutations in Japan, raising the possibility of avian flu.
In January, the infected population in every hospital in Tokyo, three elderly people died. And some deaths in 1000 than in recent years is that 80% of the elderly. Infants and the elderly do not have the strength at high risk of death is natural, there is no effective vaccine era, the two deaths of tens of millions around the world.

Influenza viruses mutate rapidly due to infectious and powerful, it can not be used as a biological weapon, is said to have been a dangerous virus. (ARIENAI science textbook editor Roh Moon Room excerpt from evil pharmacological Ⅱ B)
Especially B-type infectious virus is strong, but in rare cases can lead to severe symptoms, had no effective means of treatment to be developed Tamiflu.

The type A is prevalent, even without the benefits of Tamiflu, Relenza could replace it with life. However, if, B After the epidemic of variant type.

Effective prevention is the vaccination, there are some who say the vaccine recipient from infection. However, vaccination is known to be effective in certain cases by vaccination and the symptoms are often lighter.

I wrote the first influenza infection is death. Go out because of mild symptoms is taboo. It's very infectious, the possibility that other people have to move much. Vaccination is effective after the home and the street light outside the washroom, also failed to defend and keep the mask off.