After a lot of cat and mouse run with Bird Flu, here comes a new type of flu, the Swine Flu. As the name suggests, swine means small pig. In countries like the Americas, pigs are consumed on a daily basis. They have it in their breakfast, lunch and dinner. The popular ones are the pork roll. Its tasty and liked by all Americans. However, this flu did not started from the US. It came to the limelight from the state of Mexico. The US authorities have already started scanning every passenger arriving from that country for any health problems.
In India we too have started the scanning process. However, I saw on TV a passenger said to the press that when he arrived at the New Delhi International Airport he heard some announcement that if anyone is feeling bad about their health, they may come for a free medical check up. That means the medical check up process is not mandatory for all. So, if this is the situation then I fear that anyone who is afraid of needles or any type of health check up will never turn up and escape the Airport. This way the flu may enter India and can infect others in no time.
I was expecting this morning a full page advertisement from the Ministry of Health about Swine Flu in our local newspapers. But I did not see any info about it. May be tomorrow they might do that. Many bloggers have started posting information about this new outbreak and what to do when you feel you are infected.
I think the good news is that it can be cured with antibiotic medicines. The other day, Cipla the Indian pharma company said they have already started mass production of a drug called 'Tami flu' which is used to cure this disease.
I hope we get success in fighting this outbreak as we always did with bird flu.
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