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Shimla: While almost no case of swine flu has been reported in rest of the country during last few months, Kapvi, a fur-flung area of Shimla district, is reportedly under the spate of deadly H1N1 virus as four people from the place have tasted positive for the virus. Two teams from the Health department and IGMC were rushed to the village, who collected six samples for swine flu and out of which four were found positive.
Health minister Dr Rajiv Bindal on Tuesday said that a team of doctors and para-medical staff was sent to Kupvi from Shimla, keeping in view the gravity of the situation. He said the team was equipped with medicine and other equipment to cope with the situation. He further said that besides a team from Sirmaur district consisting of medical specialists, macro biologist and para-medical staff has also been deployed in the area.
It is a great tragedy that a single person dies of Swine Flu when it could be totally stopped if governments looked at the real solution. Indeed, we have to thank God that Swine Flu that broke out in 2009 and has killed over 17,000 people worldwide to date was not an equivalent to the Spanish Flu where up to 100 million perished and corpses were just thrown onto carts because hospitals and mortuaries were swamped. The reality of the problem is though that the present vaccine strategy will not save us as according to last year's response, it took over a year (1 year 1 month and 1 week) to immunise less than 25% of the people in the USA, still the richest country in the world. Indeed, the only real solution is to address the killer virus at source as Margaret Chan (D-G of the WHO) says that it is only a matter of time not when.
That strategy is the preventative strategy – [EDITED]
Presently the world is fooling itself in this flawed reliance on vaccines (the curative and reactive strategy) as they will never come in time. In this respect the Spanish flu did its worst between week 16 and week 26 in the second wave. Governments have been told but do nothing about the reality of the problem.
My heart goes out to all those families that have already lost their loved ones !
It is a great tragedy that a single person dies of Swine Flu when it could be totally stopped if governments looked at the real solution. Indeed, we have to thank God that Swine Flu that broke out in 2009 and has killed over 17,000 people worldwide to date was not an equivalent to the Spanish Flu where up to 100 million perished and corpses were just thrown onto carts because hospitals and mortuaries were swamped. The reality of the problem is though that the present vaccine strategy will not save us as according to last year's response, it took over a year (1 year 1 month and 1 week) to immunise less than 25% of the people in the USA, still the richest country in the world. Indeed, the only real solution is to address the killer virus at source as Margaret Chan (D-G of the WHO) says that it is only a matter of time not when.
That strategy is the preventative strategy – [EDITED]
Presently the world is fooling itself in this flawed reliance on vaccines (the curative and reactive strategy) as they will never come in time. In this respect the Spanish flu did its worst between week 16 and week 26 in the second wave. Governments have been told but do nothing about the reality of the problem.
My heart goes out to all those families that have already lost their loved ones !
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