Swine Flu - Pig Flu

Diseases seems to be spreading all over the world. Especially the flu virus which can easily adapt into various forms. From bird flu, it mutated to bird-to-human flu, more famously known as the h5n1 virus. and now, its the swine flu, or the pig flu due to its source

this flu started its appearance in 1918 and in 1976, source (wiki) before making a mild appearance in 2007 in philipiness. and lately appearing in mexico in March 2009.

Deaths have been reported in North and South America and not yet in other areas. However, this swine flu has been suspected to spread to other areas and no deaths have been reported.

Seems like in the recently years, various kinds of diseases are sprouting out to test the resilience of the human race. AIDS, bird flu, SARS and now this pig flu, who knows what other disease will appear next.

Thanks to advance of biotechnology, vaccines are being produced swiftly enough, before the disease became worse and spreads and claim even more lives.

Ironically, it was due to the vaccines that evolves the viuses. The viruses, evolves and upgrade themselves to become immune to the vaccines that are available in the market. Take this swine flu as an example. The latest occurence of swine flu virus strain was a mixture of bird flu and swine flu.

who knows what disease will evolve in the future, just hope the biomedical teams are ready to produce the vaccine to clear out them out soon enough and various goverment will contain them in their own country. As long as proper precaution are taken, we should still be quite safe.

Just hope that the story plot of resident evil will not be a true story in the future!