H1N1, How is it transmitted?
Many people today are now scared of eating pork. Because of the news that H1N1 virus come from pigs or other pork products. The truth is eating pork or other pork products are safe just as long it is cook and prepared well, it doesn’t necessarily cause the spread of the said virus but with the direct exposure to pigs.
But the influenza virus can be transmitted from human to human or human to pig. Human infection with pig viruses can occur when people had a close contact with those infected pigs.
Human to human transmission can also occur. Just like an ordinary people having an ordinary influenza. Just by sneezing or coughing of people infected with influenza, you as a person still unaffected with influenza can suddenly get this disease, or just by touching a people infected with it.
See how easy this disease can spread to us, humans? We can’t say that we are immune or we have a strong stamina. Because diseases do not choosing people. We all don’t know when or where they can come to us, the only thing that we can do now is to be careful and have a healthy lifestyle. But the most important thing to do to avoid having disease is by washing our hand.
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