There has been much talk of swine flu and its vaccine, now we see the media silence waiting for the appearance of the vaccine on the market ready.

What we have not yet addressed in the discussion of the effects is defined seasonal illnesses like the common cold or flu, considering them closely and considering what actions are possible to prevent or accelerate the healing journey.

In the first instance we consider that almost always these diseases are forms of viral infection, and only exceptionally and in patients already predisposed to bacterial infections can get complicated.

The difference is substantial because while for most of the bacteria we have effective drugs, such as antibiotics (always that their abuse does not diminish the effectiveness!), For viral infections we can not at all say the same thing.

The viral disease makes its course with or without antiviral medicines. The common antiviral drugs not only have limited effectiveness are also highly toxic. One can say without difficulty that the therapeutic benefit does not exceed the toxicity of the drug. Not only, the drugs so-called anti-inflammatory or antipyretics used without scruple, reducing the temperature of the body, make the virus less be attacked being the most common viruses extremely sensitive to heat.

For some scientific studies has been shown that even cases of polio are not treated those who reported less than for permanent injuries. The only true method is effective against viruses that of vaccination, the method invented by Pasteur in advance allows the creation of antibodies by the body and then receiving a prompt and effective response by the immune system.

The human body protects itself against viral infections with two major immune responses: the first, immediate, is the recognition of 'foreign agent and sudden phagocytosis by these cells indeed fantastic, as is clear from their name "macrophages", you Pappano the enemy on the spot without question!

This is our first line of defense, if the body is healthy and its valuable natural response, the disease can be avoided in the bud. In the case of reduced defense or in cases of particularly important or viral virulence of the virus the first line of defense may be ineffective or insufficient, and the enemy passes so our first line of defense to delve more deeply into the host body unfortunate. (continuous ...)

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• The body as a whole. By Franz

By force to investigate the infinitely small, the risk is to forget the source.

It 'obvious that knowledge progresses towards ever greater detail, to the accumulation of knowledge and then follow the direction of the microscope is the natural tendency of the researcher.

But this often generates forgetfulness of the fact that even the smallest detail is still a part of a larger whole.

The fact that he has come to define as a single gene that produces the disease is itself 'a great achievement. Investigate the physical mechanisms underlying the various diseases that sadden human life (and look at the number of them is really to say that life is a miracle) is essential to scientific progress.

But this should not obscure the fact that the human body is an entity even if 'because, if in' complete and uniform.

As such it should always be seen.

For comparison, we take the classic case of television a few years old. Suddenly, the screen shows all green.

Since the screen colors are obtained by mixing the three basic colors, red, green and blue, any engineer will tell us who is "playing" the card that controls, for example, the color red. So we'll see only green and blue screen.

The technician will replace the card and return the images to be seen as the first.

Only after a few days might not work any more sound. Again the technician, again the repair .. and after a few more days ... PUFF! The TV will not turn over. Dead!

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The swine flu news on the evolution of the infection in Mexico are still worrying, the fact that in America there are still been cases of deaths is certainly comforting. Maybe the virus has weakened, perhaps the sanitary conditions and food of the American people are different, perhaps the formation of the subject is stronger against the disease, the possibilities are many, but considering the emergency under control already, and be glad for 'effectiveness of antivirals seems a bit superficial.

Even though in Mexico because the mortality of the infection probably does not exceed 1 in 100, I can imagine that in America the number of infected individuals is still too low to draw optimistic conclusions. I do not mean by this that we must do the pessimists, but believe that with a handful of antiviral drugs that have always shown a very low efficiency is likely to have things under control ...

Given that antivirals are so effective because they do not use them in Mexico?

This attitude makes me think. He truly believes so strongly, technology and science have actually done this? Or just think we like to stay tanquilli?

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