Swine flu
Now we see the most recent pandemic disease, swine flu, threatening to reach the subcontinent. We have already seen what happened with bird flu in our country. Firstly, we have to know about the disease.
This is a virus named swine influenza virus under the family Orthomyxoviridae and its notorious new strain is H1N1.
This transmits from human to human. Because genetic rearrangement occurred in this subtype in swines( pig ). Further ahead, we can say that pig is an animal whose genetic rearrangement occurs (mixed vessel).
So in that subtype human genome is present. So it rapidly transfers from human to human.
Since it has no vaccines, we have to prevent it. A few months ago I wrote an article on public health.
I have shown that we have no arrangements to fight zoonotic diseases (diseases which transmit from animal to human).
We need a public health team which should include veterinarians, doctors, engineers etc. But we are ignoring the issue and that can turn out to be costly.
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