Protection From H1N1 Flu Is The Same As From Seasonal Flu

Protection From H1N1 Flu Is The Same As From Seasonal Flu.
The untested H1N1 flu seems to serving many characteristics with the seasonal flu it has mostly replaced, a uncharted study indicates. "Our results are further confirmation that 2009 pandemic H1N1 and seasonal flu have like sending dynamics price. People seem to be similarly transmissible when ill with either pandemic or seasonal flu, and the viruses are likely to growth in similar ways," said Benjamin Cowling, lead father of a study appearing in the June 10 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.

The most luxurious news is that this means the preventive measures healthfulness authorities have been recommending, such as frequent hand washing, should be equally serviceable against pandemic flu. "Influenza is very difficult to contain, but ongoing measures including the availability of pandemic H1N1 vaccines should be able to ease up the worst of any further epidemics," added Cowling, who is an assistant professor at the School of Public Health at the University of Hong Kong.

Cowling and his colleagues followed 284 household members of 99 individuals who had tested firm for H1N1. Eight percent of the household contacts also floor indisposed with the H1N1 virus, about the same transferring rate as seen for the seasonal flu (9 percent), the researchers found.

Viral shedding (when the virus replicates and leaves the body), as well as the mould of genuine sickness, were also nearly the same for the two types of flu. The "attack rate" (meaning the portion of people in the entire population who get sick) for H1N1 was higher than that for seasonal flu and the idiosyncrasy was most pronounced amid children. The authors hypothesized that this might be due to the fact that younger kin seem to have lower natural immunity to the virus.