The world has suffered a number of flu strains in recent years, including avian influenza or bird flu, Spanish flu and swine flu, or most recent - H1N1. Without exception, every year during flu season, we often hear the question - "Is America ready to manage the next pandemic influenza?". And every year the same answer: NO! And 'evident last year when the fault occurred the H1N1 vaccine and experts agree that such bottlenecks likely to happen again when the successive load the influenza epidemicarrives. After the Armed Forces Institute in Washington, DC, head of the Department of Molecular Pathology, Dr. Jeffery Taubenberger, "I think it is a pandemic in the future ..... the kind of influence is impossible to predict at this point." Is America ready to handle the next influenza pandemic?
This observation was a few years ago, but much of the information remains the same today. America can ill-equipped to handle the next influenza epidemic or pandemic, should it come to that.In fact, there are about ten times the number of doses needed each time out the next pandemic flu virus around the world. If a flu virus breaks out, we saw several times that it comes to vaccinate the most vulnerable and the rest of the population per se, because the vaccines are not produced fast enough. The main reason for this is that strains of influenza viruses mutate new strains, previous versions of the vaccine makes it unusable,in some cases.
According to a report by the Federal return, this world also in the spread of bird flu began, the United States was not prepared to handle a massive influenza epidemic and forecasts are that, up to 1.9 million Americans may be in an pandemic influenza virus should occur daily. In the report, stressed the need for 600 million doses of flu vaccine within six months to produce, but when it broke out a deadly flu pandemic of global proportions, the quarantine should be implementedand hospitals would be overwhelmed, riots would occur during the vaccination sites.
The travel restrictions could delay a pandemic influenza virus by one or two months would be difficult to get out of a influenza epidemic and viral causes of these possible scenarios. Despite the studies, provided quarantine and contingency plans, the fact remains that the H1N1 virus has come close to proving that America might be well prepared for this type of situation, the absence was evident fromThe vaccines to the public. For the government and the health of the banking system, America is probably better equipped than other pandemics, most of the world in the fight against the virus.
It 'true that the next pandemic influenza virus could bypass around the corner and still remains the question is, is America, or for that matter, the whole world, ready for the next pandemic influenza virus? " And the answer may not be what you wanted to hear, maybe.
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