Swine InfluenzaSwine flu (UK: Swine influenza) are cases of influenza, is caused by a virus Orthomyxoviridae which is endemic in swine populations. Swine flu virus has been isolated to date have been classified as C or subtype of the genus Influenzavirus Influenzavirus A [1].
Pigs can accommodate a flu virus that originated from humans or birds, allowing the virus to exchange genes and create a pandemic strain.
Swine flu is commonly found in people who come into contact with pigs, although it was also found cases of transmission from human to human. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention in the United States, gejalan influenza is similar to influenza. Symptoms such as fever, cough, pain in the throat, body aches, headache, chills, disorientation, lethargic and weak. Some patients also reported bowel movements and vomiting. Symptoms of this virus can cause sufferers to experience a loss of consciousness that ended in death.
Known to be caused by a swine flu virus subtype H1N1 influenza A H1N2, H3N1, H3N2, and H2N3.
Swine influenza virus is not transmitted through food. Cooking food until the temperature of 160Â ° F will kill the virus. Influenza virus can be transmitted from pigs to humans or vice versa. Infection in humans occurs mainly when infected pigs were dekat2 like being in a pig pen, and so forth. Infection of humans to other humans can also occur, similar to human flu (through sneezing or coughing, may also through the touch of the hand, then hand touching the mouth or nose).
To diagnose the infection of swine influenza, required the collection of specimens from the respiratory tract in the first 4 to 5 days.
There are 4 kinds of antiviral drugs that circulate in USuntuk treating swine influenza: amantadine, rimantadine, oseltamivir zanamivir san. However, recent swine viruses isolated from humans found resistant to amantadine and rimantadine. So when this drug is recommended to treat and prevent swine influenza is oseltamivir or zanamivir.
