Hi Jitendra,
Thanks for the informative material.
It has created quite a bit of scare among the people.
It has shattered the age-old belief "Treat cold, it goes in a week, don't treat it - it goes in seven days!" Many honest physicians believed that their resources were inadequate to treat influenza but they are adequate to treat its complications. The virologists and the medical profession knew about the 200 or odd viruses (Rhino virus and Adeno virus) causing common cold. Perhaps a new member is added to that list!
Uniquely, complications of a cold (causing virus) have been mostly in the area of the upper/lower respiratory tract. But this one appears to be affecting several other organ systems (The medical fraternity should corroborate).
Interestingly, we have learned that viral diseases are autoimmune ones. The opinion of the experts with special reference to H1N1 should be available before it is late and the country gets sicker with every advancing day under the threat of this.
We have many more communicable diseases that we have been able to make some sort of arrangements to live with. Casualties arising out of water-borne diseases, due to several other airborne diseases, are so heavy that no more we bother to keep any track of it. The statistical figure provided by the very same agency for the number of deaths in our country due to Tuberculosis, hepatitis (infective), gastroenteritis, enteric fever (typhoid), several other respiratory illnesses and the like are awesome. Even in this country of ours, there is a death occurring every 5 minutes essentially due to problems of childbirth. We have refused ourselves to rise to the occasion and adapt measures like putting on a mask (even if a five rupee thing sells at a hundred times its cost!).
Please share measures (if you have information) and means to win over this and suggest measures to prevent if we may not be able to cure!
I once more congratulate you for your efforts to share valuable information.
Regards,
Bibhu Prasad