25/04/09

The pig strikes back.

Yesterday I was chatting with a mexican friend of mine, and she was really disappointed that in mexico's city cause of a flu the governament has decided to close the university, the cinemas, the theaters, and the schools.
In thatmoment I didn't think a lot about it, but then a little light switched on in my mind:
"Why a governament should close one of the biggest university in the world just cause of a simple flu?"
So i started to look on the internet and I found out that is not a simple flu, but a very virulental virus evolved from a flu of the pigs.
As all the virus also this one is a cocktail, a mix of birds' flu, pigs' flu and human one, and it is transmitted from human to human.
The WHO (Worldl Health Organization) has set the allarm on this virus, but even if extremelly virulental it h
as done very few victims untill now (on 1100 people infected just 20 have died).
Of course the most dangerous thing about these new kind of viruses is their evolution that can be incredibly fast and the fact that even if is one of the most common illnesses the flu is still the one that kills the greatest number of people all around the world.
Of course I will continue to keep you informed about the news on this subject.

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