Swine Flu Vaccine in the works
The swine flu pandemic came and spread like wildfire making it one of the fastest spreading viruses in human history, thanks to modern air travel that took it to all corners of the world within 24 hours. Now in the pandemic stage, the virus has skipped the containment phase for virologists were caught off guard for it had already crossed borders when it was discovered and identified. As to problems associated with Swine flu, the much used Tami-flu, the anti-viral drug developed during the spread of the bird flu virus is proving to be quite ineffective against the swine flu virus and there has already been a recorded case of reverse infection where swine were infected by an active virus from a human host, first identified in the UK.
The two viruses have caught the world off guard though the virus is surprisingly not new, cases of the swine flu have been recorded in 2007 in Asia yet no study on possible human transmission were done so when ti spread, no available vaccine was in the works sending virologists to get one out of the box as quickly as they can. These new viruses have been a true medical disaster for they have been known for a long time, with isolated cases recorded. We may have to enact changes to the world’s health care system for these two viruses overwhelmed it quite easily even in an age where technology is so sophisticated they have mapped the human genome.