According to an animal study consducted at the University of Maryland, the HINI virus responsible for the swine flu (called the “grippe porcine” in France and Belgium) does not (appear to) mutate and thus will not become more virulent this season, say the experts who have shown that the new pathogen does not combine with other virus strains such as the seasonal flu. See: From: http://www.lesoir.be/actualite/sciences_sante/2009-09-01/virus-h1n1-devrait-muter-super-pathogene-725530.shtml.
Using ferrets infected by three different virus strains the researchers have observed that the HINI does not combine with the other viral strains to form a super-virus, something which had been feared it might do, (as did the 1918 “Spanish Flu”), this according to a study published on Tuesday…September 1, 2009.
The HINI is contrary to what was expected, is different from the others and reproduces in the body of the ferrets on average two times faster than the other virus strains.
“The HINI virus takes clearly the lower of the two other principle strains of seasonal flu and has all of the characteristics of a pathogen totally adapted to the human organism.” Observed Danile Perez, director of the agricultural program to prevent and control avian flu who in the University of Maryland, and who is the principle author of the work.
“I am not surprised that the HINI virus is more virulent for the simple reason that it is new and that the infected subjects have not had the time to develop immunity, while the other older strains of flu have developed a immune resistance.”
“The results of this study leave on the think that the HINI flu virus will dominate the virus season and could equally be more contagious,” has stated Dr. Antony Fauci, director of the American National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) which financed Dr. Perez’s research.
These new data, though preliminary, show the necessity of a vaccination against the seasonal flu and the swine flu this autumn and winter.
In a side-piece Le Soire.be adds:
The EU has Stopped Counting
The European Union, which has tabulated at least 46,000 cases of the swine flu, has ceased to publish daily account since the at this phase of the pandemic many EU member countries have ceased to test more patients. “The disease is benign, and not very much more grave than the ordinary seasonal flu,” has insisted Suzanna Jakab, director of the European Center for Prevention and Control of Disease (ECDC). The seasonal flu kills about 40,000 people annually in the EU. “The disease (each year) actually hits 1% of the EU population. This autumn, this proportion could attain about 30% “(of the population), if the virus does not become more virulent, has indicated Mme Jakab
Trans rjk
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment