Swine flu party

Swine flu was the talk of the world affecting millions in 2009. It first emerged in 1918 and people had very little idea of what exactly it was. Between 1918 and 2010, the investigations on this infectious disease had become very serious and various truths have been identified. Swine flu is also called as swine influenza or pig flu or hog flu. It has different strains namely H1N1, H1N2, H2N3, H3N1, H3N2 and H4N6. The most common among them that infected North America was theH1N1 strain.

It is still a query whether this disease spread from pigs to humans or from humans to pigs because both were affected with the same kind of virus and fell sick at the same time. However, this disease can spread between pigs, from pigs to human, between humans, from pigs to birds and from birds to pigs. Though spread of infection from pigs to humans are rare, being close with pigs (working in a pig farm, or even visiting a pig farm) can cause the disease because they are airborne. It also spreads by eating pork (pig meat) that is not properly treated for the disease and not properly cooked.

The elderly and the young children easily fall prey to this disease. The pandemic outbreak of this infectious disease in 2009 also suggests that those who had supressed immunity like pregnant women, diabetics, leukemia were highly affected . The symptoms of swine flu are fever, chills, sore throat, cough, tiredness, body pain, head ache and in some cases diarrhea and vomiting is also noted.

Swine flu party is a party organized between the normal people and the people affected with swine flu for the unaffected people to get infected with the swine flu virus to produce immunity. The doctors and the government think having a swine flu party is not a good idea due to various reasons like

1. There is no complete idea about the disease and the doctors and scientists worry that getting infection this way might produce more virulent viruses that may be hard to treat than getting an immunity.

2. Not everyone who gets infected with this virus will get immunity but they might even suffer the consequences of the disease. The 'consequences' means not just getting mild symptoms, it might even result in death.

3. As the vaccines are just being prepared there won't be enough vaccines to treat everyone who is affected with the disease.

4. There will not be enough medical professionals to take care of the people if everyone is affected. This kind of parties will not only spread the infection to the ones who desire to have it but also spread to those who don't desire it.

5. At the end, there will not be a stop to this infection. Not only the human race but every living species will die of this infectious disease.

It is always good to get an immunity naturally. Getting immunity by disease is okay if it comes to you on its own where you have family members and medical professionals are there to take care of you. Never invite a disease because you won't know where it will take you. Swine flu can be easily prevented so why take risks unnecessarily.