H1N1 is a National Emergency- Obama Declares

Posted on 25. Oct, 2009 by Turbo in Buzz

US President, Barack Obama declared swine flu or H1N1 as the National Emergency. According to a statement from White House, Obama signed the declaration. This move will be to assist the nation for better preparedness in case there is an increasing spread of the H1N1 virus infection across US.

World Health Organization had already declared swine flu or H1N1 as pandemic. According to reports about 1000 succumbed to the virus in US and 46 states reported infection. The declaration comes in the wake of fear that the H1N1 virus might spread faster in the winter months. The virus claimed more than 5000 reported deaths across the world and more than 400k people were tested positive so far.

Swine Flu Parties- Health experts warn against this new trend

Posted on 30. Jun, 2009 by Turbo in Buzz

Health experts warn against “swine flu parties.” Health experts expressed serious concern on throwing Swine Flu Parties, the trend that originated recently from the Internet forums and picking up as a rage amongst some communities.

Parents, in the hope of inducing infection of H1N1 virus into their kids, are showing interest in holding Swine flu parties (just like Botox parties). Their belief; children infected with mild strains of H1N1 virus could become immune to more virulent strains of the H1N1 virus.

The trend of hosting swine flu parties emerged recently on various Internet forums actually and is picking up quite fast. The idea maybe an extension of the erstwhile popular chicken pox parties, which were held to induce resistance to the virus strains towards, if any, subsequent infections by the virus strains.

Health officials are warning against this idea though. According to Dr Richard Jarvis, the Chairman of Public Health Committee of the British Medical Association, the intentional exposure to the H1N1 virus, even to a milder strain, could have the risk of fatality and so warned people against throwing Swine Flu Parties.