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Variation of influenza viruses are common

Pathfinder

Editor, Senior Moderator
Even if the variation of influenza viruses are also common, Mo filter

(2009-09-30 16:00:58) Source: Xinhua Daily Telegraph version 6

Xinhua News Agency, Nanjing, September 29 (Xinhuanet Zhu Xudong) for the current caused a lot of people nervous Influenza H1N1 influenza virus, the Chinese Medical Association, Jiangsu Province, Institute of Respiratory Diseases, vice chairman of the Jiangsu Provincial People's Hospital, said Professor Huang Mao, director of Respiratory, in fact, Influenza A virus, including hundreds of different subtypes of influenza virus, influenza virus mutation is common, there is no need to panic.

Professor Huang Mao introduction, for these subtypes of influenza viruses of different names, from the "H" and "N" different. The so-called H and N, is a nail-type influenza virus surface proteins of two categories. According to H and N patterns, influenza A virus can be 15 kinds of H-type and 9 kinds of N-type for permutations and combinations, such as H1N1, and H5N1 and so on. Even the same subtype of influenza virus gene sequences may also be due to changes in the spread of the virus nature of death rate that is greatly different.

Influenza A virus subtype 145, which can cause human influenza, mainly H1-H3 model. Influenza A H1N1 Influenza is an influenza A virus due to a pig or human an acute, respiratory infectious zoonotic diseases, mode of transmission similar to ordinary flu, usually through infected person coughing or sneezing and other respiratory spread as the main route of transmission, in addition, access to communication is also very important to the spread of one of the ways.

It is understood that at present China's more active strain was influenza A H3 influenza, although the same emerging Influenza A H1N1 influenza A virus, but in fact is not a new influenza virus, as early as in 1988, the United States found Influenza A H3 influenza viruses, a number of vaccines against it has already been developed. The virus is very active, several times in the flu season "attacks" the world, has gradually become the focus of a global influenza prevention and control of the virus.

Professor Huang Mao said that in the three kinds of humans infected with influenza virus, influenza A virus does have a strong variability, will occur every 10 years, a large antigenic variation can occur within the subtype antigen a small variation, therefore, influenza virus is also the greatest threat to humanity. However, mutation of influenza viruses is a common phenomenon, people to remain vigilant at the same time, there is no need to panic unduly.

Caught a cold, people tend to self-healing


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