Pretty impressive! Yesterday I was feeling a little achy and so I immediately suspected I was coming down with the swine flu. Thankfully, I believe I was mistaken, but I am sure I will have several other “swine-flu scares” before it has run its course.
People still don’t really know what’s going on with this mysterious virus. It was reported that the principal who died in NY had underlying medical conditions. Yet, his wife says he only suffered from gout, a disease marked by acute attacks of arthritis.
Also, people have been criticizing the WHO’s pandemic levels. Because the phases represent the extent of the spread of the virus, and not the severity, several health experts think the current pandemic levels are not very useful.
“One of the better determinants is the incubation period,” said Robert I. Fields, chair of the department of health policy and public health at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia.
Fields said a long incubation period with mild to no symptoms would allow the virus to spread quickly and widely before people quarantine themselves. Couple a long incubation period with a particularly deadly strain, and doctors have their “worst nightmare” of a flu virus, Fields said.