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4 months to make swine flu vaccine

28 April 2009 08:31 (UTC +04:00)

It is recommended now to use anti-flu medicines Tamiflu and Relenza, prepared for prevention of bird flu. The World Health Organization warns that swine flu pandemic alert rose from level 3 to level 4, which means that there has been sustained human-to-human transmission. However the virus spread was localized and the doctors said the virus had weak adaptation to the human organism. The virus widespread turns into pandemic disease only in level 6, said WHO. The organization issued last flu pandemic alert in 1968 during the Hong Kong flu spread, which killed nearly one million people.
The swine flu virus spread was identified in Mexico on April 24. The number of deaths in Mexico for which flu is believed responsible climbed to 149. That includes 20 in which the swine flu virus has been confirmed as the cause. The number of confirmed cases of the virus in the United States increased to 50, with 28 of them from one New York City school. 6 flu-infection cases were found in Canada, two in Britain and one in Spain. Some tourists returned from Mexico to Israel, Brazil, Guatemala, Peru, Australia and New Zealand suspected to be infected with swine flu were taken to hospital.