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PANDEMIC PREPAREDNESS FOR BUSINESSES
PANDEMIC PREPAREDNESS FOR BUSINESSES
PANDEMIC FLU VS. SEASONAL FLU DIFFERENCES
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PANDEMIC FLU VS. SEASONAL FLU DIFFERENCES
| PANDEMIC FLU | SEASONAL FLU |
| Pandemic flu occurs roughly every thirty years and can take place in any Season. About every one hundred years a more severe strain surfaces, the last one was in 1918 and was considered 'late'. Experts agree the next severe pandemic is now overdue. | Ordinary flu occurs every year normally during Northern-hemisphere winter months. |
| It affects many more people than ordinary flu - a quarter or more of the population - and is associated with much higher rates of illness and death. For example, the worst flu pandemic last century - the 1918 'Spanish Flu', caused between 40 and 50 million deaths worldwide, killing approximately 3% of those it infected. | Usually affects 10-15% of the population and is thought to kill between 500,000 to 1 million persons worldwide annually. |
| Pandemic flu, usually associated with a higher severity of illness and consequently a higher risk of death, represents a much more serious infection than ordinary flu. | Most people recover from ordinary flu within one or two weeks without usually requiring medical treatment. |
| People of all age groups may be at risk of infection with pandemic flu, not just 'at risk' groups. In fact studies have shown that groups normally 'at risk' with ordinary flu are less susceptible during pandemic flu. This is because healthy individuals' immune systems are likely to put up much more of a fight which itself can exhaust the individual's immune system to a point of giving up the fight altogether. |
Deaths are generally confined to 'at risk' groups including: - Elderly people over 65 years of age - People with existing medical conditions such as lung diseases, diabetes, cancer, kidney or heart problems People whose immune systems are compromised due to HIV/AIDS or because they have a transplant for example - The very young |
| A vaccine against pandemic flu will not be available at the start of a pandemic. This is because the virus strain will be completely new. It will be different from viruses that circulated the previous winter, and not predictable in the same way. Experts believe the H5N1 avian influenza strain is most likely to mutate into the next pandemic flu. | The vaccine against ordinary flu is effective because the virus strain in circulation each winter can be fairly reliably predicted. |
| Antiviral drugs may be in limited supply, their use depending on evidence of their efficacy which will only emerge once the pandemic is under way. | Annual vaccination, when the correct virus strain is fairly reliably predicted, and antiviral drugs are available for those at risk of becoming seriously ill. |
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