Influenza A Virus Subtype H1N1

What's that?

I guess by now you should not ask that question....

If you actually read news or get updated with it ..or not just in case you wanna know..

written were this HEADLINES

M’sia confirms first A(H1N1) case

Malaysia has reported its first influenza A(H1N1) case involving a student who returned from the United States two days ago.

According to Health Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai yesterday,

“The student returned to Malaysia on May 13 and the next day, he sought treatment when he felt unwell. The test confirmed that he has the H1N1 virus.”

Further on, the news stated that following confirmation of the first influenza A(H1N1) case, all passengers on

Malaysia Airlines flight MH091 from Newark, United States

which arrived at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport on Wednesday are advised to contact the Health Ministry.

Personally and according to reliable sources, I heard most of them did not turn up yet. C'mon guys!

Alright, so Malaysia’s first case involved a 21-year-old male student who returned from the United States two days ago which is May the 13th 2009 and started having

fever, sore throat and body aches


yesterday, and was admitted to Sungai Buloh Hospital at 6.45pm the same day.

It was that serious that he had to be admitted into the hospital on the same day! :(

Let's pray that he survives and the doctors can give him the best treatment available in the hospital! :(

I've searched on Wikipedia for the updates of cases as of the rest of the affected countries.

Here there are:

Country	Cases		Deaths
	Laboratory confirmed#	Probable[1] (Suspected)[2]‡	Confirmed (Suspected)‡
WHO totals	8,451[3]	N/A	72[3]
Total	8,469¤	N/A§	73 (~100)
Mexico	2,895[4]	N/A§	66[4] (~100)[5]
United States	4,714¤[6]	N/A¤	5[7]
Canada	496[8]	N/A§	1[8]
Costa Rica	9[9]	8[9] (120)[9]	1[9]
Spain	103[10]	0 (23)[10]	0
United Kingdom	82[11]	4[12] (271)[11]	0
Panama	43[13]	0 (29)[13]	0
France	14[3]	5[14] (22)[14]	0
Germany	14[12]	0[12]	0
Colombia	11[3]	1[15] (164)[15]	0
New Zealand	9[16]	10 (38)[16]	0
Italy	9[3]	0[12]	0
Brazil	8[3]	35[17]	0
Japan	8[18]	0
Israel	7[3]	N/A	0
El Salvador	4[3]	2[19] (5)[19]	0
Belgium	4[20]	0[12]	0
South Korea	3[3]	0[21](24)[21]	0
Guatemala	3[3]	0 (0)[22]	0
Netherlands	3[3]	0[12]	0
Cuba	3[3]	N/A	0
Hong Kong	2[23]	0 (16)[23]	0
Finland	2[3]	0[12]	0
Norway	2[3]	0[24]	0
Sweden	2[3]	0[12]	0
Mainland China	2[3]	N/A	0
Malaysia	2[25]	N/A[25]	0
Poland	2[26]	N/A	0
Thailand	2†[3]	N/A	0
Turkey	2[27]	N/A	0
India	1[28]	2[29]	0
Argentina	1[3]	? (84)[30]	0
Australia	1[3]	1 (28)[31]	0
Switzerland	1[3]	0[12] (4)[32]	0
Austria	1[3]	0 (3)[33]	0
Ecuador	1[3]	0[34] (1)[34]	0
Denmark	1[3]	0[12]	0
Ireland	1[3]	0[12]	0
Peru	1[35]	0 (0)[35]	0
Portugal	1[3]	0 (0)[36]	0
Other countries	0	0 (31)	0

Adapted from: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.2009 swine flu outbreak.
Retrieved on May 16, 2009.

There were so many affected countries.. Being in an international university, what else could you think about? Aaaaaaaa.... :( :(

Maybe I should just skip class and stay in my room.. *kekeke!* XD kiddin`

But seriously.... It's possible right? :( :(

Well, just in case we need to know what are the symptoms right?

Here is what I have found.....

The symptoms seen in U.S. cases resemble those normally seen in influenza, with

1. fever,
2. cough,
3. sore throat,
4. runny nose,
5. headache, and
6. muscle soreness.

However, about 38% of patients had vomiting or diarrhea, which is unusual in infections with other strains of influenza.

The incubation period between infection and the appearance of symptoms is about two to seven days.

The tranmission of this disease was said to be through...

Air

There is so far little data available on the risk of airborne transmission of this particular virus. Mexican authorities are distributing surgical masks to the general public. The UK Health Protection Agency considers facial masks unnecessary for the general public.

Many authorities recommend the use of respirators by health-care workers in the vicinity of pandemic flu patients, in particular during aerosol generating procedures (e.g. intubation, chest physiotherapy, bronchoscopy).

Pork Products

Although some pigs in Canada were recently found to be infected with the new strain of H1N1,the leading international health agencies have stressed that the "influenza viruses are not known to be transmissible to people through eating processed pork or other food products derived from pigs."

Does that mean no more porky meat meat for us? *huhuhu* T_T

Let's hope and pray that does not happen!

The next time your body do not feel so well...

don't dread or fret to see a doctor the next time you catch a flu or a bad cough or worst of all a fever!

Please take care everyone! ^^

If you are more interested in the real news and the outbreak update of the disease.

Refer to the links below..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_swine_flu_outbreak

http://www.theborneopost.com/?p=51832

All italized words are referenced from sources such as Wikipedia and Borneo post online news.