Common cold, including chest cold and head cold, can be caused by more than 200 viruses; seasonal flu is caused by either influenza A or B viruses. Cold and flu remedies can usually ease symptoms. From last more than one week I had been attacked by a mild flue. While watching news on Swine Flu my attention was dragged by the topic and was quite curious to know the symptoms and precautions.

I really felt sorry for Mexico which has been nearly secluded by the world with halted air travel, banned pork imports and initiated drastic controls to mitigate the spreading virus. As the threat shows signs of subsiding the question becomes where it came from and how we stop another outbreak. Horrific conditions endured by pigs in concentrated large-scale operations, and the devastating economic impact on small farmer communities of bloated large-scale operations. No-one yet knows whether swine flu will become a global pandemic.

It is suspected that virus originated from a BIG pig farm run by an American multinational corporation in Veracruz, Mexico where thousands of pigs are kept in dirty warehouses and sprayed with a many drugs posing a health risk to more than just our food which create the perfect conditions to breed dangerous new viruses.

Swine flu doesn’t often infect people as it is different from normal human attacking viruses, and the rare human cases that have occurred in the past have mainly affected people who had direct contact with pigs. But the current swine flu outbreak is different. It’s caused by a new swine flu virus that has changed in ways that allow it to spread from person to person and surprisingly it’s happening among people who haven’t had any contact with pigs.

Symptoms of swine flu are like regular flu symptoms and include fever, cough, sore throat, runny nose, body aches, headache, chills, and fatigue. Many people with swine flu have had diarrhea and vomiting. Nearly everyone with flu has at least two of these symptoms. But these symptoms can also be caused by many other conditions. That means that you and your doctor can’t know, just based on your symptoms, if you’ve got swine flu. It takes a lab test to tell whether it’s swine flu or some other condition.

Most U.S. cases of H1N1 swine flu have been in older children and young adults. It’s not clear why, and it’s not clear whether this will change. People with heart disease or with HIV infection or any chronic diseases, pregnant women, children under 12 months of age are at particularly high risk of severe disease or bad outcomes if they get the flu.

Mood: Sick
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