Influenza A/H1N1 virus found in Japan and Australia

The presence of virus confirmed by four people: three in Japan, and one woman in Australia. This transmits Reuters. According to the Japanese authorities, cases of infection confirmed by passengers, arrived in Japan from Detroit. All affected hospitals. The remaining 49 passengers flying this flight, sent a check.

In Australia, one woman complained that during his stay in the United States she had symptoms similar to influenza. Results of tests showed a weak presence of the virus A/H1N1. Now the patient is fully recovered, the risk of transmission of the virus, it does not.

Second on the mainland of China, human case of influenza A/H1N1 revealed on Tuesday, the Ministry of Health, PRC. Diseased - 19-year-old student - May 8, arrived by plane from Canada to Beijing. On Sunday, he felt bad, he picked up the temperature, however, on Monday, he traveled by train from Beijing to the administrative center of the eastern city of Jinan, Shandong province. In the way the patient deteriorated, and he sought medical help to train doctors. The doctors suspected that the patient influenza A/H1N1. Upon arrival in Jinan young man immediately taken to the city's isolation hospital, where previously confirmed the diagnosis of medical brigade trains. Ministry of Health has asked all passengers to the flight, with whom the patient flew from Canada and who were sitting in close proximity to diseased (contains rows of seats on the plane), as well as the seventh coach passenger train, which he followed from Beijing to Jinan, show awareness and take medical examination. Previously, it was reported that influenza A/H1N1 patient was detected in the province of Sichuan, where he arrived from the United States. In the Beijing airport imposed tight control over coming from countries which recorded the spread of highly strain of influenza A/H1N1. Thus, as of Tuesday, with the help of thermal identified 738 persons with fever, 54 of them hospitalized for a medical examination. The authorities warned that all arriving in China with a bad feeling obliged to voluntarily report to the medical personnel at the intersection of the Chinese border. For concealment of information on the health status of convicted faces a fine of $ 150 to $ 1,5 thousand

Porcine influenza pandemic will affect every fourth inhabitant of the planet

Pig flu virus threatens a quarter of the world's population. According to expert estimates, the World Health Organization (WHO), within two years of deadly disease could spread worldwide, killing seven million people.

As epidemiologists predict virus N1H1, the victims of which are already over 150 people in Mexico, could spread throughout the world for 18-24 months, infected during this time period to 1.5 billion people. The number of deaths that are projected by WHO to reach seven million. And it was only the pig flu: experts fear that the spread of the disease significantly affect the quality of health services at the expense of overcrowding in hospitals and a shortage of staff around the world.

«During the SARS epidemic we have faced the fact that people suffering from cancer and similar diseases, they could not get treatment because of overcrowding in hospitals - says an expert on infectious diseases Dr Lo Win-Luc. - This resulted in a significant mortality hanging ».

Meanwhile, experts have not yet been taken to predict the likelihood of a pandemic influenza pig. As was reported earlier, the WHO has decided to raise the threat of exposure to the virus prior to the fourth N1H1. The next step, a fifth means that the virus adapted to human body and is distributed around the world, six, extreme, the degree - that the disease has become a global epidemic.

As noted by CNN, the last time the world is faced with a pandemic, more than 40 years ago, when Hong Kong flu, proshagav throughout the world, killing nearly a million people. The issue of recognition of the pandemic was raised during the recent outbreaks of avian influenza and SARS, but the viruses that cause these diseases have not been able to spread from person to person.

«Pork flu has passed from person to person, as a result of its much harder to control», - said the head of the department of Microbiology, University of Hong Kong Dr. K. Yen. In addition, the virus N1H1, according to experts, will make every effort to survive and can mutate into an even more serious threat.