It appears that pregnant women, which are supposed to be the most exposed and vulnerable to the swine flu and its possible complications, would be completely safe if they take a shot, while Gaza city call to a swine flu alert because of the unstopable movement of bacteria and its 1.5 million population squeezed in 360 square kilometers.
In effect, a clinical trial explained on cnn that almost very healthy pregnant women would be carefree about the swine flu. The trial was led by Dr Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease and it consisted in injecting a single 15-microgram dose of an H1N1 vaccine and over 100 women, 90% showed a strong immunity response, without apparents side effects.
But what really caught my attention was this swine flu alert in Gaza City, still from CNN. The H1N1 viral movement seems to have no borders line and keep spreading. It already caught Europe without, however, hitting as strongly as here and its road let's think that all the world would suffer from it, and Gaza City hopes for a miracle after declaring the alert state because of its great population, being in a lot of contact to each others. Knowing the actual situation, if Gaza City was to suffer a deadly wave of flu infections, the consequences could be terrible. But will we ever be able to stop the movement of this infection?
Pierre: You present a summary of some interesting information from your sources. And I like how you end with a question. So here's what I'd like you to do. Keep asking questions and keep trying to answer them. Find some bloggers or others who are writing about the efforts to find vaccines or to prevent the spread of the virus. What are they saying? What are some of the issues behind the problem? Explore this topic deeper.
RépondreSupprimerAlso, for your larger research, I'd like you to research some background on previous outbreaks or pandemics. Here's an interesting speech, by the way, that deals with the bird virus from 2006-07. However, it may provide you some ideas to spur research etc.
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/laurie_garrett_on_lessons_from_the_1918_flu.html
Keep reading and writing.