How is swine flu different than regular flu

How is the swine flu different than the regular flu??

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It makes you throw up. It is a bit more severe. It is more likely to strike High School students. Because it is new and has pieces from animal viruses it is less familiar to our immune system, so our immune systems take longer to recognize …

Is swine flu different than the regular flu?

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The difference is that the swine flu is affecting different populations. Pregnant women are at increased risk, so are children under five years old. People born after 1957 and obese people are considered at increased risk. The usual risk gr…

Are the symptoms of swine flu different than the regular flu??

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As far as we currently know, the symptoms are the same including fever, sore throat, body aches, cough and headache.

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How is Swine Flu different from regular flu?

Q: Seasonal Flu (regular flu) infects millions of people every year. It’s fair to say it’s a common ailment, just like a cold. Regular flu also kills thousands of people each year… Of all the swine flu cases I heard about, most people are getting better, just like with a regular flu.Of course if you’re elderly or a newborn or an immunodeficient person, well, the flu might be harder to treat and may kill you, but that’s not news! Are we panicking over nothing?

A: It’s not really different from the “regular flu”. And yes, some people are majorly overreacting.The media is often creating unnecessary panic in gullible people by focusing on a variety of diseases that turn out to be no big deal. Anyone remember West Nile Virus? SARS? Bird flu? If you hardly do it’s because not much ever came of any of those things. Take a clue, people.

Is swine flu different than the regular flu?

Q: I’ve heard that the big deal with Swine Flu is the flu that supposedly only pigs are affected by has mutated and can now affect humans. This is big agreed, but is there any difference in symptoms or the likelihood that you will contract the flu? If not, why are we getting so scared?

A: The difference is that the swine flu is affecting different populations. Pregnant women are at increased risk, so are children under five years old. People born after 1957 and obese people are considered at increased risk. The usual risk group (people with chronic underlying medical conditions) remain at risk. We are getting scared because this flu is targeting younger people and it is affecting all continents in the world (pandemic).

Why is Swine flu any different from regular flu?

Q: I don’t know why people are over reacting so much to the swine flu. Is it more deadly than the regular influenza? Many People get the flu every year, some may die from it, some may recover. But They never closed schools just because someone died from the flu. So why is the swine flu any different?

A: There aren’t any differences in fact the seasonal flu is more dangerous than the swine flu, it kills 36,000 people in the US alone. But the view of swine flu as a dangerous flu is because of many reasons including almost all the people it killed are young healthy youth and the higher chances of the virus mutation which can lead to something more deadly like the spanish flu which killed like millions of people.