This morning on the radio I heard that a Queens school had cases of the swine flu. Queens is a fairly large part of New York City so I didn't think much about it. But when I found out that the school was a close to my home, I was surprised and a little scared. This virus came at a very unfortunate time. This virus has probably been around for a month, within this one month time span many students from all over the U.S. have gone to Mexico for their spring break vacation, which is how these students at the school were infected.
The swine flu is a strain of the influenza(Flu) virus that originated In Mexico. And what's scary about it is that influenza such as the swine flu, is very easily spread and can cause death, but not to worry it is treatable. In case you are worried, I found ways to protect yourself on Wikipedia.
"Recommendations to prevent infection by the virus consist of the standard personal precautions against influenza. This includes frequent washing of hands with soap and water or with alcohol-based hand sanitizers, especially after being out in public. People should avoid touching their mouth, nose or eyes with their hands unless they've washed their hands. If people do cough, they should either cough into a tissue and throw it in the garbage immediately or, if they cough in their hand, they should wash their hands immediately.
Some physicians in the US are recommending the use of masks when in public.[84] The purpose of a face mask is to effectively cover a person's mouth and nose so that if a person is around someone who is infected, there is a decreased likelihood of transmission. Recommendations to protect against the avian flu indicated that using a face mask with a rating of N99, N100 or P100 in the United States or a rating of FFP3 in Europe should be effective in protecting against transmission.[85] While face masks with these ratings provide 99% or greater efficiency in protecting against flu transmission, N95 or FFP2 face masks provide about 94% efficiency.[86] N95 and FFP2 rated face masks may therefore also be effective."
I know wearing those masks will probably make you look silly, but it'll save your life and a lot of trouble.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30398682/
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Hopefully no one at Baruch has it because I think that even then they would never cancel school! lol
ReplyDeleteThis is very scary and hopefully very soon we will get some sort of cure for this flu. I always wash my hand, and try to keep cleaning myself by taking shower twice a day.I hope we all will do whatever is take to prevent this flu.
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