WHO: Avian flu pigs will be transferred to humans
Sunday, April 26, 2009 - 14:15
World Health Organization warned of the emergence of swine influenza virus in Egypt, described it as "an urgent need in the field of public health," asserting that the pigs are the principal mediator in the transmission of the virus from birds to humans and some of them.
أ Swine flu epidemic disease severely affects mainly pigs, and influenza caused by a virus that category (a), the world has witnessed the spread of the disease in pigs, causing a high state of terror after the lethality of a large number of people in Mexico, and the spread of the disease, in particular, in the autumn and winter seasons However, it can be deployed at other times of the year, according to the international organization.
The organization said that there are several strains of swine flu, like the flu that affect humans, into the nature of the virus on a continuous basis, and usually this type of swine flu does not infect humans, but that many cases recorded in Mexico, mostly among people with communication PIGS directly, and the World Health Organization confirmed that some cases represent a new kind of death is not known by the swine flu carries genetic qualities different from those that were injured by humans in different regions in Europe and Asia.
Virus among humans a manner similar to the spread of seasonal influenza, or through coughing and sneezing, and World Health Organization has expressed concern, but pointed out that it is still too early to change the level of preparedness for a pandemic.
The organization said that he will be vaccinated pigs in North America routinely against the virus, but so far there is no vaccine to combat this custom, if the virus infected people, saying only that it can not be used for vaccines against viruses, seasonal flu virus in pigs of these cases.
أ Swine flu epidemic disease severely affects mainly pigs, and influenza caused by a virus that category (a), the world has witnessed the spread of the disease in pigs, causing a high state of terror after the lethality of a large number of people in Mexico, and the spread of the disease, in particular, in the autumn and winter seasons However, it can be deployed at other times of the year, according to the international organization.
The organization said that there are several strains of swine flu, like the flu that affect humans, into the nature of the virus on a continuous basis, and usually this type of swine flu does not infect humans, but that many cases recorded in Mexico, mostly among people with communication PIGS directly, and the World Health Organization confirmed that some cases represent a new kind of death is not known by the swine flu carries genetic qualities different from those that were injured by humans in different regions in Europe and Asia.
Virus among humans a manner similar to the spread of seasonal influenza, or through coughing and sneezing, and World Health Organization has expressed concern, but pointed out that it is still too early to change the level of preparedness for a pandemic.
The organization said that he will be vaccinated pigs in North America routinely against the virus, but so far there is no vaccine to combat this custom, if the virus infected people, saying only that it can not be used for vaccines against viruses, seasonal flu virus in pigs of these cases.
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