What is the treatment for swine flu?
Suspecting swine flu, is due to:
1 .- Do not self-medicate and avoid the use of aspirin or similar medications containing aspirin. Control the fever with acetaminophen or physical means.
2 .- To go to your nearest health center or talk to your doctor especially children and elderly with high fever, generalized weakness, difficulty breathing, dry cough and muscle aches.
There are four different antiviral drugs for treatment of influenza: amantadine, rimantadine, oseltamivir and zanamivir.
Does the swine influenza virus H1N1 is equal to the H1N1 influenza virus in humans?
No. The swine flu virus H1N1 are antigenically very different from the H1N1 virus in humans, therefore the seasonal flu vaccines for people they do not provide protection against swine influenza virus H1N1.
Is there a vaccine for swine flu?
There are vaccines given to pigs to prevent swine flu. However, there is no vaccine to protect humans against swine flu.
It is possible that the seasonal flu vaccine provides partial protection against H3N2 virus but not against the H1N1 swine influenza.
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