Thursday, May 28, 2009

Swine flu prevention measures

How far would you consider the measures taken by various countries to contain the spread of swine flu adequate and effective?

I guess that swine flu prevention is highly prevalent in countries all around the world after a huge lesson learnt during the SARS epdemic. This time swine flu will be more highly regarded although not as deadly as SARS, due to the so called phycological aftermath of teh SARS. Hence prevention measures was highly impleted without fail. One very good example will be Singapore. The measures taken were all hihly useful and efficient in telling the people wo contracted swine flu. The 7 days home quarantine was a very good example of the prevention measures. it allows people to at least ensure their health and ensure that the flu is not contracted. Another one would be the airport measures where they require all passengers from highly affected regions to go for a full body check up with quarantine. It is very effective as it could be viewed from a life case, which is the contraction of swine flu by a 22 year old man which returned from New York. Boarders of the same flight wefre required to go for check-up and quarantine immidiately after the finding of this swine flu. Hence, with such highly effectively implemented measures the spread of swine flhy became extremely slow and will also soon be conquered by medical technology.
However, effectiveness may be overboard and cause bad relationship between two nations. One example is America which is already segregated from other country, looking at them as horrible flu spreaders especially the mexicans. This created high resentment among the Americans as they thought that such treatment is totally unfair and demand much better and fairer treatment from the people. Hence causing such a big Hoohaa.

No comments:

Post a Comment