And the symptoms are "only" flu-like, including fever, cough, headache, muscle and joint pain, sore throat and runny nose, and sometimes vomiting and diarrhoea, mostly mild. [Source]
So, do we have the "safest" and "mildest" pandemic ever? Well, I don’t think so. Had the WHO not raised the pandemic level to level 5 in earlier date:
- many would have died because they were not managed (quarantine and/or hospitalised) properly and swiftly;
- and the spread would be too hard to control;
- and with more spreading, mutation from the "mild" influenza may become more rapidly developed and probably deadlier;
- besides, we do have mortality eventhough it is lesser than 1%, but death is still an unwelcomed result.
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those symptoms seem to be very common, right? so common that we dont know for sure they r really h1n1 or not.. hv to go for blood test then only can confirm..by then, so many got infected already.. .
in my medical opinion, i dun think this is pandemic level 6. Pandemic-6 will only happen if the disease spread millions of ppl within 24 hours and millions die from it. that's when we call it as pandemic-6.
this is just normal new disease.
at least, people are not turn into some ugly-zombies like hollywood movies...right?
KY,
Does it matter what level of Pandemic? All i know as long as the disease is fatal (& highly contagious!), I'm gonna be as alert as possible (for my kids).
Cheers bro!
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level 6 already leh.....scary scary....
Thank you all (ReanaClaire, DeePo, Maria/Faizal, Kay, Chloe) for dropping by. ;) To answer ye all please check your individual reply below. Have a nice day ye all. :D
Claire, it's so common that a common cold become "uncommonly" feared, especially if you're just coming out of the plane. :)
DeePo, deadly flu used to be of high mortality one because of various reasons (wide and not easy to monitor human migrations through various routes, poor information and/or warning dissemination and/or sharing, delay in treatment, no effective medication or medical approach, etc.). As told by the WHO person, the level 6 only concerns the "global" part not the severity...
Maria/Faizal, it doesn't matter what pandemic level there is. :) Highly fatal? *shrug* I would have to disagree with you. Highly contagious? Maybe, perhaps as contagious as a common flu (which is very high). :) Apa-apa pun (Whatever the matter), you're right, we must be as alert as possible, even if it's a common flu. People gets afraid of H1N1 because of the publicity, and the "initial" high mortality (in Mexico) when only few confirmed cases were detected...
Kay, how was Sandakan? :) I thought flu drug can only be prescribed by specialist, no? Perhaps you know some specialist then? :D
Chloe, don't scare, I'm here. :D
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