Swine Flu Now in Germany

It is true, swine flu has spread across the world rapidly and the WHO has long warned of that global pandemic. Worldwide there were an estimated 28000 infections and more than 1000 kills in August '09 already, so the WHO. This had its effect on the entire world. They all got prepared for the pandemic, like the States and Australia, which immediately ordered pure vaccines.

Today Influenza A H1N1 has reached Europe and there are already more than 100 cases of confirmed swine flue in Germany. Yet other than the first cases coming from Mexico, where it all started, the German ones so far took a harmless course, says the president of the Robert Koch Institute Berlin, Jörg Hacker. This makes the Germans wonder: How dangerous is swine flu really?

 

INFRATEST DIMAP, an institute for surveys seated in Berlin came up with statistics on how the Germans today view the treat of the swine flu infection. The question posed was: How did the discussions on swine flu in the affect you?

4% said they feel serious unease, 14% feel some unease, 32% do not really feel uneasy and 50% do not at all feel any unease. It seems the threat has not yet reached the population.

 

Yet, like America and Australia, the Federal German Government has also made its preparations and has ordered vaccines, so that on October 26 the immunization of the masses can begin.

Truth however also is that there are in fact three different approved vaccines on the German market. Yet other than in the States and in Australia it was feared in Europe that the demands for vaccination would not meet the supply, so the decision was made to add some molecular reinforcer to the vaccine so to improve its efficiency.

 

However it is already known since end of August that swine flue turned out to not be as severe as it was assumed to be in the first place, and so the additional reinforcer has become futile. All the more as it is said to have some unpleasant side effects, like half of the test persons had pains in the arm, about a third of them felt sick and some had fever lasting for two or three days. All of these side effects yet just so fade after a short while, so none of these are in any way serious. They simply fade.