Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Evil Viruses

There's no doubt that you have heard of Swine Flu.
It has been the topic of this year and guess what? It's a virus.

How did the Swine Flu virus begin? This is how:

Swine influenza was first proposed to be a disease related to human influenza during the 1918 flu pandemic, when pigs became sick at the same time as humans. The first identification of an influenza virus as a cause of disease in pigs occurred about ten years later, in 1930. For the following 60 years, swine influenza strains were almost exclusively H1N1.


What does this Virus look like? Take a close look:





This virus is an evil one. Thousands of people have died due to the infection and alot more are currently sick. A specific medication is not known yet but it has been confirmed the TamiFlu is necessary medication with no extreme side effects. Use the tip of the day posted right after the Blog title for tips about how to avoid this virus.


Can you come up with 3 evil viruses?



2 comments:

Lodi said...

Aids, herpes, gonohorrea.

lene said...

Correct Lodi!