This blog is designed to educate people in Malaysia and other places in the world about the dangerousness of H1N1 and to increase public awareness towards H1N1.

People will learn the best way to prevent from this influenza and also make them be more careful especially when they are in public places that make them easily expose to this disease.

Patient that has athma, organ failure, pregnant women, and diabetes is easily affected by this influenza. This influenza still not have its vaccine and medication. So far 21 hospital has been given H1n1 antiviral for those who had been suspected or affected by the disease. Malaysian Prime Minister has stated that any tourist have to fill in the mandatory form and for those who did not follow will be punished. Not more than 2 years prison or RM 10000 fine or both of them.

Every tourist from outside of the country especially America, Melbourne and Manila had to undergo medical check before entering the country. The citizen has been advice for wearing mask when go out into the public and outside the country that have high risk.

Amantadine and Rimantadine:

H1n1 flu is resistant to these two common drugs. The virus is different compare to other viruses. Therefore, vaccines for human seasonal flu would not provide protection. However, a “seed vaccine” has been specifically tailored to this swine flu and will be manufactured if officials deem it necessary.

- The Health Ministry’s operations room in Putrajaya has started a 24-hour monitoring of the situation. The public can call 03-8881 0200/300 for enquiries.

- Thermal scanners will be placed at international airports to speed up the screening process for A (H1N1) flu.

- Public and private medical practitioners have been instructed to report to the district health office any patient with influenza-like illnesses or severe pneumonia symptoms and who had travelled to the affected countries after April 17.

For brief information, refer HERE.

Influenza A H1n1 in Malaysia started at May to June 2009. It has been more than 50 cases in Malaysia from it first discovered in this country until 21 June 2009.
Before 2 August 2009, 5 Malaysia citizen had died because of this disease.

It has been predicted by the David KL Quek, Malaysian medical president that 5,500 to 28,000 citizen of Malaysia will die because of this disease if 20 % from 27.7 million people citizen of this country affected by the virus. The death rate of Malaysian citizen rise from 0.4 % to 0.66 %.

Some news about H1N1 in Malaysia, click HERE.

What can we do in preventing these??

- Wash your hands often with soap and water, especially after you cough or sneeze. Alcohol-based hand cleaners are also helpful

- Avoid touching your eyes, nose or mouth.

- Consult your nearest healthcare facility if you think you have any of the symptoms.

- Try to avoid close contact with sick people. - If you get sick with influenza, stay at home and limit contact with others to keep from infecting them.

- Covering your nose and mouth with a disposable tissue or handkerchief when you cough or sneeze. Throw the tissue in the waste basket after you use it.

U.S. President Barack Obama officially declared H1N1 a national emergency On October 25, 2009. 207 countries and overseas territories/communities have reported laboratory confirmed cases of pandemic influenza H1N1 2009, including at least 8,768 deaths has been stated by worldwide update by the U.N.'s World Health Organization (WHO) by November 29, 2009. Continue on, it has been stated by the U.N.'s World Health Organization (WHO) on January 15 2010 that 208 countries and overseas territories or communities have reported laboratory confirmed cases of pandemic influenza H1N1 2009, including at least 13,554 deaths.

For more information, click HERE.

Affection control

On April 26, 2009, the Chinese government announced that visitors returning from flu-affected areas who experienced flu-like symptoms within two weeks would be quarantined. Some non-US airlines, mostly Asian ones, including Singapore Airlines, China Eastern Airlines, China Southern Airlines, Cathay Pacific, and Mexicana Airlines, took measures such as stepping up cabin cleaning, installing state-of-the-art air filters, and allowing in-flight staff to wear face masks.US airlines made no major changes as of the beginning of June 2009, but continued standing practices that included looking for passengers with symptoms of flu, measles, or other infections, and relying on in-flight air filters to ensure that aircraft were sanitized.[80] Masks were not generally provided by airlines and the CDC did not recommend that airline crews wear them.

In Mexico and the USA an outbreak of Influenza-like illness had occurred, the CDC reported seven cases of novel A/H1N1 influenza In April 2009. The confirmed cases of novel influenza A in the southwest US and the outbreak of ILI in Mexico were related in April 24. by May 7 the number of confirmed cases rising to 2,099, The disease then spread very rapidly although the Mexican government have taken aggressive measures. the first global pandemic since the 1968 Hong Kong flu has happen after the WHO declared an H1N1 pandemic, moving the alert level to phase 6 On June 11, 2009.

Question: can we get effected by this influenza if we eat pork??

The answer is no. these virus not transmitted through food. Cooking pork to an internal temperature of 70ºC and above kills the swine flu virus. Eating properly handled and cooked pork and pork products is safe.

The H1N1 Swine Flu Map. Click HERE.

The virus isolated from patients in the United States was found to be made up of genetic elements from four different flu viruses in 2009 flu pandemic. It were swine influenza virus typically found in Asia and Europe, North American swine influenza, North American avian influenza, and human influenza. The reassortment of human influenza and swine influenza viruses is the result caused from the new strain. In the Preliminary genetic characterization it has been found that, the hemagglutinin (HA) gene was similar to that of swine flu viruses present in U.S. pigs since 1999 but there are genes that resembles versions present in European swine flu. The mixtures of swine flu, bird flu, and human flu viruses are themselves from the six genes from American swine flu.

The symptom of the H1n1 flu:
- Fever
- Lethargy
- Runny nose
- Cough
- Sore throat
- Lack of appetite
- Vomiting and diarrhoea in some cases.

For more details, please refer HERE.

Influenza h1n1 has recently shocked the world.A lot of innocent people has become victim to this pandemic. before we continue on, how about first we explore a little bit about this influenza. Influenza A (H1N1) virus is the common cause of influenza in human and a subtype of influenza A virus. the strain from h1n1 caused a few percent all human flu in 2004-2005.

The strain also cause a small fraction of all influenza-like illness and a small fraction of all seasonal influenza. the strain called swine flu by media has been declared the new strain of swine-origin H1N1 as a pandemic by the World Health Organization in June 2009.

There are four main sub-types of the virus, but the most recent isolated influenza viruses from pigs have been H1N1 viruses. It regularly causes high flu outbreaks in pigs but with low death rates. It is a respiratory disease of pigs caused by type A strains of the influenza virus. it does not affected human that have connection with pigs but there are also evidence that it happen during human to human connection.

For more information please click HERE.