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Questions and answers about influenza
What is a pandemic?
is an epidemic disease that spreads steadily in at least three countries in two regions of WHO or attacks almost all individuals in a locality or area, according to the Royal English Academy.
What is the difference between an epidemic?
The difference is that the epidemic is a disease that is spreading steadily for some time in a country simultaneously undertaking a large number people.
What, then, the declaration of a pandemic?
According to experts, the flu has entered a phase of pandemic alert means that steadily has circulated for over two continents.
Why not said before?
Because while the disease was present on several continents, June 11 only acquired epidemic proportions in three countries on two continents: Mexico and the United States, America, and Australia in Oceania.
How bad is it? According
Margaret Chan's words, there are "good reasons to believe that, worldwide, the gravity of the pandemic, at least in its early days, will moderate."
it affect the same way to all countries?
According to the director of the WHO, experience indicates that "the severity can vary depending on many factors from one country to another. In some countries, about 2% of the cases have been severe, often rapid progression to potentially fatal form of pneumonia.
What is the population at risk?
displayed severe complications in cardiac patients People with COPD, asthma, smoking, diabetes and hypertension. Most severe and fatal infections have occurred in adults between 30 and 50 years. This pattern differs from what happens with the epidemics of seasonal influenza, where mortality mainly affects the elderly.
How much will the affected population in the country for the flu? According
Daniel Stamboulian infectious, is unpredictable. "Probably, like seasonal influenza, is between 5 and 10% of the population. The drama happens when you get sick between 20 and 40%. In this scheme five times increase in hospitalizations and mortality triples. Today, the annual deaths from seasonal flu in the country are between 1000 and 3000 cases, "he said. 
What is a pandemic?
is an epidemic disease that spreads steadily in at least three countries in two regions of WHO or attacks almost all individuals in a locality or area, according to the Royal English Academy.
What is the difference between an epidemic?
The difference is that the epidemic is a disease that is spreading steadily for some time in a country simultaneously undertaking a large number people.
What, then, the declaration of a pandemic?
According to experts, the flu has entered a phase of pandemic alert means that steadily has circulated for over two continents.
Why not said before?
Because while the disease was present on several continents, June 11 only acquired epidemic proportions in three countries on two continents: Mexico and the United States, America, and Australia in Oceania.
How bad is it? According
Margaret Chan's words, there are "good reasons to believe that, worldwide, the gravity of the pandemic, at least in its early days, will moderate."
it affect the same way to all countries?
According to the director of the WHO, experience indicates that "the severity can vary depending on many factors from one country to another. In some countries, about 2% of the cases have been severe, often rapid progression to potentially fatal form of pneumonia.
What is the population at risk?
displayed severe complications in cardiac patients People with COPD, asthma, smoking, diabetes and hypertension. Most severe and fatal infections have occurred in adults between 30 and 50 years. This pattern differs from what happens with the epidemics of seasonal influenza, where mortality mainly affects the elderly.
How much will the affected population in the country for the flu? According
Daniel Stamboulian infectious, is unpredictable. "Probably, like seasonal influenza, is between 5 and 10% of the population. The drama happens when you get sick between 20 and 40%. In this scheme five times increase in hospitalizations and mortality triples. Today, the annual deaths from seasonal flu in the country are between 1000 and 3000 cases, "he said.
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