Warning, Warning about H1N1
This you should be aware of. It concerns H1N1 influenza or Swine Flu.The contagious period for Swine Flu appears to researchers to be longer than first thought, and much longer than the normal flu virus. This is perhaps the reason why the disease continued to spread out of Mexico so swiftly despite quick response and detection by local health authorities.
Apparently, humans continue to shed the contagion about two weeks after the symptoms have completely disappeared from the host. Normal influenza hangs on for about 24-72 hours after the symptoms abate.
From USA Today,
"We were a bit surprised to see patients who were still positive on Day 12," Lye told the American Society for Microbiology in San Francisco.
This means that instead of going back to your work, or having co workers return to the work place on short turn around from the flu, companies should keep these employees on a 14 day leave after the disease appears clear in the victim.
So if you do catch this influenza be aware that you are still sick for two weeks after you feel you're not.
1 comment:
Most people don't even get 14 sick days a year anymore, do they?
I'm sure the corporations and the governments are going to encourage people to stay away from work for 14 days! Har!
I don't have a doubt in my mind they'd rather have 100 percent illness and a certain percentage of deaths than allow people to take 14 days off work.
I'm beginning to see why H1N1 is considered so dangerous. It's not the flu itself, it's the employers who'll be killing lots of people.
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