Swine Flu

The current outbreak of swine flu, that has now swept through the Americas and making its way through Europe and Australia, is very worrying indeed. After the scare with Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) and Avian Flu a while back, it is a great cause of concern. So far more than 100 people has been reported to have died from swine flu. Reading from the paper today, transmission of flu can happen between humans and pigs, and in rare cases, between humans themselves. One of my friends put on his Facebook that it has already reached Pandemic Phase 4 (read from Yahoo here), which means that sustained human to human transmission in one country. So human to human transmission actually happened, though only Mexico has reported deaths from swine flu.

I really hope that the flu virus is contained quickly. With the current economic downturn and recession, swine flu is one other thing that you would not want to be worried about.

You may want to keep updated from the WHO website here.