The feature of a disease is that, having begun in one point of the world, it can quickly extend, promptly assuming a pandemic scale.
"It is possible to say with confidence that the next pandemic is inevitable, a question only in when it occurs what virus strain will cause it and the disease will be how heavy to proceed", - considers Venching Zhang, the Director of the program of WHO of flu.
It is possible to say with confidence that the next pandemic is inevitable, a question only in when it occurs...
The first in modern history a pandemic of flu, so-called "Spaniard", happened 100 flyings ago – in 1918. Over 500 million people – a third of all population of the Globe at that time caught a virus. The disease receded only two years later, having claimed the lives about 50 million people, and it many times is more, than 17 million dead in World War I. And "Spaniard" among men of 20 - 40 years though usually it is considered that in the main risk group - children and people of advanced age caused a stir in extraordinary high death rate.
By the way, nothing Spanish in origin of a pandemic of 1918 was. Just its original scales became known only after the disease reached Spain. Before it already raged in France and the USA, but there data on epidemic were secret "under the war law", and in neutral Spain censorship was absent, and the truth about a killing virus opened to the whole world, well and the name, as usual, "was pasted".
Today the disease and ways of its treatment is known much more, than a century ago, but a virus, constantly changing and quickly extending around the planet – people began to travel more often and quicker – poses not less serious threat to public health.
Do not trust widespread "myths" about vaccines, do an inoculation prior to the beginning of a "grippny" season
To explain clearly how to struggle with flu, in WHO decided to call to the aid children and held a drawing competition: young artists from Australia, Denmark, China, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Latvia, El Salvador, Tajikistan, France and Switzerland tried to tell how to treat flu as to be saved from it and why you should not be afraid of inoculations.
Adult specialists tried – using children's drawings – most briefly and well to tell what to do not to ache with flu and that – if the virus after all made the way in an organism.
WHO experts recommend: do not trust widespread "myths" about vaccines - prior to the beginning of a "grippny" season do an inoculation.
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