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9 Tips for Caring for Patients with Swine Flu at Your Home

In most ways, swine flu is just like seasonal flu. They have similar symptoms and are treated the same way. When swine flu symptoms worsen, the patients are brought to the hospital and are given antiviral medicine. In most cases, proper medical care and rest assures swift recovery. If someone in your household falls sick [...]

Swine Flu Vaccine – Advantages and Disadvantages

According to the reports of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO), the swine flu vaccine will become available by September of 2009. This is a much awaited development in the fight against swine flu, especially when the occurrence of the disease has reached pandemic proportions. And [...]

What Are the Common Signs and Symptoms of Swine Flu?

Despite the fears that people have regarding swine flu, there are actually no special or more dangerous symptoms associated with the disease. The signs and symptoms that a person afflicted with swine flu displays are just the same as the signs and symptoms of ordinary, seasonal flu. As a brush-up, these symptoms are: • Fever [...]

10 Tips for Swine Flu Protection to Pregnant and Breastfeeding Women

It is hard for a woman who is expecting a baby or breastfeeding a child to become sick. Whatever makes her sick can also affect her baby. And now, with the danger of swine flu lurking about, the idea of falling into illness is becoming more worrisome for a pregnant or breastfeeding woman. What can [...]

Am I Sick of Swine Flu? When to See the Doctor for Swine Flu

The swine flu virus has been making people sick all across the globe since early this 2009. The disease has already reached pandemic proportions, with thousands of people becoming sick with swine flu and some hundreds dying from it. Despite this, reports from the US Centers of Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health [...]

Do Facemasks Work in Preventing Swine Flu?

Because of the swine flu pandemic, people all over the world have taken the habit of wearing facemasks whenever they are in public. The swine flu virus can be caught airborne, and so people have come to think that wearing facemasks can protect them from being infected by the virus. However, the truth is that [...]

Three Ways You Did Not Think About that Can Get You Swine Flu

The swine flu virus works just like any other strain of influenza virus. You get it by touching something that is already contaminated by the virus or by getting in close contact with a person who is already sick from the swine flu. But are these the only means by which you can get sick [...]

Can My Pets Get Sick of Swine Flu?

If you have a dog or a cat at home and your pet loves to spend time outdoors, you will know that your pet is not as discriminating as you are with what they touch or get in contact with. It is even possible for them to play with some strange thing they found and [...]

Three Main Differences between Swine Flu and Bird Flu

Since early 2009, the world has been in the grip of an influenza pandemic that has killed hundreds of people and has affected thousands in different countries. Although the influenza pandemic is largely caused by a novel H1N1 swine flu virus, there are also a handful of cases where the culprit was identified to be [...]

H1N1 Swine Flu Tests – Pros and Cons of H1N1 Instant Tests

The recent outbreak of the H1N1 swine flu has sent the entire world into a state of panic. After all, this influenza strain is much more virulent than other strains of the viruses that cause the disease. It is also fatal if left unattended, and indeed, thousands of people worldwide have already died because of [...]