How to Fight the Swine Flu if it Comes to Your Town

All of us have heard by now that the swine flu is back and with a vengeance in some parts of the world, especially Mexico, where it seems to have originated.

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Center for Disease Control defines the swine flu in this manner: "Swine Influenza (swine flu) is a respiratory disease of pigs caused by type A influenza viruses. Outbreaks of swine flu happen regularly in pigs. People do not normally get swine flu, but human infections can and do happen. Most commonly, human cases of swine flu happen in people who are around pigs but it’s possible for swine flu viruses to spread from person to person also."

Swine flu can be deadly in some cases, depending on your immune system. What are the symptoms, you ask? "The symptoms of swine flu in people are similar to the symptoms of regular human flu and include fever, cough, sore throat, body aches, headache, chills and fatigue. Some people have reported diarrhea and vomiting associated with swine flu. In the past, severe illness (pneumonia and respiratory failure) and deaths have been reported with swine flu infection in people. Like seasonal flu, swine flu may cause a worsening of underlying chronic medical conditions."

Doctors treat this flu with antiviral medicine like oseltamivir or zanamivir. "Antiviral drugs are prescription medicines (pills, liquid or an inhaler) that fight against the flu by keeping flu viruses from reproducing in your body. If you get sick, antiviral drugs can make your illness milder and make you feel better faster. They may also prevent serious flu complications. For treatment, antiviral drugs work best if started soon after getting sick (within 2 days of symptoms)."

Most of us want to PREVENT the swine flu and other illness and the best way to do this is to get your immune system strong. Fight viral, parasitical and bacterial infections by PREVENTING them with any of the following:

Colloidal silver
Vitamin C, A and E
Garlic
Garlic
Zinc
Folic Acid
B-Complexes
Grapeseed Extract
Olive Leaf Extract
CO-Q10
Alpha Lipoic Acide
MGN-3

I wrote an article a while back that covers ways to boost one's immune system. If you're interested, check it out here.

It's not only supplements that help prevent the flu and other illnesses, it's also watching your diet. The above article gets into that.

Here is where swine flu cases have been reported in the US:

U.S. Human Cases of Swine Flu Infection

State # of laboratory confirmed cases
California -- 7 cases
Texas -- 2 cases
Kansas -- 2 cases
TOTAL COUNT
11 cases

International Human Cases of Swine Flu InfectionSee: World Health Organization
As of April 25th, 2009 7:30 p.m. EDT

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