Antiviral medicines like tamiflu, and other supportive treatment that can effectively treat the illness are available in the ministry of health in the case of Uganda. You also need to drink a lot of fruits and have enough time to rest.

Influenza is a respiratory disease that is caused by influenza virus that is related to a virus that regularly causes diseases in pigs. The spread of influenza can be stopped under the following ways:

Always sneeze or cough into a handkerchief or tissues. The minister for health in Uganda government Christine Androa says the disease can be stopped by people washing their hands thoroughly with soap and water, especially after touching the mouth and nose or surfaces that are potentially contaminated.

The minister, while speaking in an interview urged people to reduce the time they spend in crowded places whenever they hear that there is an outbreak of influenza in any part of the world.

It is also advised to improve air flow in your houses/homes by opening windows. Further more it is advised to avoid close contact with people who show influenza like symptoms (try to maintain a distance of about one meter if possible).

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Seasonal influenza epidemics occur every year in many countries including America, England, South Africa and Austria. Countries are able to treat flu with vaccines and our bodies can fight the known infections as well.

A flu epidemic is a world wide epidemic caused by a new virus to which the populations will have no immunity and perhaps no medicine.

How do I prevent the spread of influenza A (H1N1)?

The main route of transmission of the influenza (H1N1) virus is similar to seasonal flu, via droplets that are expelled through sneezing or coughing. You may stop the spread of influenza by: avoiding close contact with people who show influenza like symptoms.

Always sneeze into a handkerchief or tissue, wash your hands with soap, reduce the time you spend in crowded places and improve air flow in your homes by opening windows.

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The early signs and symptoms of influenza A (H1N1) are flue-like, including fever, cough, headache, muscle and joint pain, sore throat and runny nose. Reports by the Uganda’s ministry of health, and the World Health Organisation (WHO) Kampala office also indicates that sometimes vomiting and or diarrhea is part of the symptoms of influenza.

Can people contract influenza through eating pork? The answer is a big NO! Dr. Christine Androa says that influenza A (H1N1) flu viruses are not transmitted through food (or eating pork). You can not get the virus from eating properly handed and cooked pork, so it is safe to eat your pork even during an outbreak of influenza.

How to kill an influenza virus? The influenza virus can be killed by cooking temperatures above 70 degrees centigrade. If you eat food from an animal that was sick or had died before it was slaughtered you are taking major risks of getting other infections and not influenza A (H1N1) virus.

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The world a couple of years ago experienced a new influenza disease outbreak which was reported in more than 40 countries around the world and claimed over 95 human lives.

According to doctors and other medical experts, Influenza is a respiratory disease that is caused by influenza virus that is related to a virus that regularly causes diseases in pigs.

When people infected with influenza cough or sneeze, infected droplets get on their hands, drop on the surface or are dispersed into the air.

Therefore another person can breathe in contaminated air or touch infected hands or surfaces and get exposed to influenza disease. Doctor David Ddumba of Nsambya hospital, formerly a worker at Mulago hospital (Uganda), says that to prevent the spread of influenza, people should cover their mouth and nose with a tissue whenever coughing, and wash their hands frequently.

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Influenza is a respiratory disease that is caused by influenza virus that is related to a virus that regularly causes diseases in pigs. The spread of influenza can be stopped under the following ways:

Always sneeze or cough into a handkerchief or tissues. The minister for health in Uganda government Christine Androa says the disease can be stopped by people washing their hands thoroughly with soap and water, especially after touching the mouth and nose or surfaces that are potentially contaminated.

The minister, while speaking in an interview urged people to reduce the time they spend in crowded places whenever they hear that there is an outbreak of influenza in any part of the world.

It is also advised to improve air flow in your houses/homes by opening windows. Further more it is advised to avoid close contact with people who show influenza like symptoms (try to maintain a distance of about one meter if possible).

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Modern medical science and journals shows that coconuts provide a wide range of health benefits.

Scientists have discovered that coconut kills viruses that cause influenza, and herpes.

It has also been discovered that it kills the viruses that cause measles, hepatitis and other illnesses.

Coconuts kill the bacteria that cause ulcers, throat infections, urinary track infections, gum disease and cavities, pneumonia and gonorrhea.

It expels tape worms, lice, Guardia and other parasites. It also boosts energy and endurance, enhancing physical and athletic performance. It improves digestion and absorption of other nutrients including vitamins, minerals and amino acids.

Coconut also improves insulin secretion and utilization of blood glucose. It reduces on the problems associated with absorption syndrome and cystic fibrosis.

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Children bellow five years in Uganda received extra doses of oral polio vaccine even if they had already been immunized and children aged six months to 59 months received measles vaccine irrespective of the previous immunization status and vitamin A supplementation.

The Mister for health Christine Androa says that it’s now a policy in Uganda for parents to bring their children for routine immunization against the 8 killer immunisable childhood diseases: Polio, Measles, Diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough, tuberculosis, Hepatitis B, and haemophilus influenza type B.

The minister says that when all children under five years receive drops of polio vaccine at the same time, the circulation of the virus that causes polio is interrupted. He says that once immunization is properly conducted it will lead to eradication of polio in Uganda. According to the national immunization progamme, June and July rounds of polio immunization exercise would be conducted from house to house.

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