Influenza A (H1N1) – A New Name for Swine Flu

People were afraid to eat pork because of the widespread of Swine Flu viruses which was originated in Mexico and kept on spreading like wild fire across the Unites States to Europe and now, landing in Asia.

It seemed that the viruses showed no sign of slowing down and the infected cases has reached a new high. People in the world including the World Health Organization called it the ‘Swine Flu” Viruses, deeply agitating the farmers in the United States whose pork was banned by many countries such as China, Dubai and Russia and others even though Government officials repeatedly reassured that swine flu viruses could not be transmitted to human body just by eating pork, providing that the pork was well-cooked. However, more and more people joined the ‘no pork” line. To regain the confidence of the public of eating pork, the swine flu virus was changed to influenza A (H1N1) by the World Health Organization.

As of May 3 2009, the type A has caused 19 deaths and 506 were confirmed human cases of infections in Mexico. As for the United States, 226 were laboratory confirmed human cases of infections, including 1 death.

As for the rest of the world, no death was reported yet and infected cases were Austria (1), Canada(85), Hong Kong(1), Costa Rica(1), Denmark(1), France(2), Germany(8), Ireland(1), Israel(3), Italy(1), Netherlands(1), New Zealand(4), Republic of Korea(1), Spain(40), Switzerland(1) and the United Kingdom(15).