The term ’swine flu’ pandemic flu to call off the middle of the world, according to the World Animal Health Organization or OIE is mistaken. For this new virus strain is a combination of a bird virus, human and pig.

Be OIE, this pathogen is not a virus but the virus of human classic characteristics that include a component of the virus avian (bird), pigs and humans.

“The virus was not isolated until now in the animals. Therefore, it is not properly designate the disease of swine influenza,” the agency statement of animal health based in Paris, France is quote from AFP, Selasa (28/4/2009).

OIE says, science, science will show whether the virus is circulating between the livestock and the results will determine whether countries have acted properly prohibit the import of swine.

OIE said, human flu epidemic in the past that come from animals have been named according to geographical origin, such as the Spanish flu. “It is logical to call this disease ‘influenza North America,” OIE proposal.

In an interview with AFP, the Director General Bernard Vallat OIE states there is no evidence that swine flu virus is actually derived from animals and pigs.

“No evidence that this virus, currently circulating among humans, actually comes from animals. There is no element to support this,” Vallat firm.

Vallat added again, very unfair to punish the pig breeder who put out their life’s business, discuss the risks that have not been proven at all. Moreover, according to him, so far no one can show how or where the strain of virus was new.

Are swine flu?
Swine flu is a respiratory disease that infect pigs. Caused by influenza type A, outbreaks of disease in pigs occurred regularly with high-level cases but rarely to be fatal. This disease tends to infecting in spring and winter but the cycle is a year-round. There are many types of flu and swine flu in humans as this disease is constantly changing.

What can people infected swine flu?
Swine flu does not usually creep in humans, although sporadic cases also occur and are usually associated with pigs. Notes on cases of transmission from human to human is also very rare. Human transmission of swine flu in humans is estimated to spread like seasonal flu – through coughing and sneezing. In the present outbreak occurred is not yet clear whether the disease is transmitted from human to human. Symptoms of swine flu in humans appears similar to the symptoms of seasonal human flu.

Is this a new type of swine flu?
The World Health Organization, WHO, confirming that at least some cases is a version of H1N1 influenza A type that never existed. H1N1 is the virus that causes seasonal flu in humans on a regular basis. However, most new versions of H1N1 is different: the virus load is typical of the genetic material found in viruses that infect humans, birds and pigs. Flu virus has the ability to exchange genetic component to one another, and likely a new version of H1N1 is the result of the combination of various different versions of the virus that occurred in one animal source.

Is it safe to eat pork?
Yes. There is no evidence of swine flu spread through the consumption of meat of infected animals. However, the meat must be cooked well-done, the temperature 70 Celsius will kill the virus. 

Whether citizens should be worried?
When shown a new type of flu that has the ability to spread from human human authorities mengawai carefully to see if the cause has the potential pandemic. WHO warns of cases in Mexico and the United States can potentially cause a global pandemic and affirm this situation seriously. However, the WHO says is still too early to assess the situation accurately. Currently, the WHO says the situation is almost approaching the pandemic flu than the years since 1968 – is a three-level ancamannya scale of six.

No one knows the impact of pandemic disease fully, but experts warn the victim died can reach millions of people around the world. Spanish flu pandemic, which began in 1819 and also caused by the H1N1 virus, killing millions of people.

The fact that the cases in the United States so far showed symptoms of light is good news. While the outbreaks in Mexico parahnya likely caused by factors that are not always the small possibility that occurred in other regions of the world. However, the fact that most of the young victims of a show that does not baisa. Seasonal flu usually tend to engulf the old age.

How about the treatment and vaccine?
United States government says the two drugs used to treat flu, Tamiflu and Relenza, seems effective in the cases that occurred so far. Uncertain effectiveness of flu vaccine that is now there to protect people from this new virus, because the genetic type of flu is different from the others. United States scientists have developed a new vaccine, but needed time to refine and produces in the amount sufficient to meet demand.

How about the bird flu?
Type of bird flu that causes death in Southeast Asia in recent years is different from the type of flu that is now infecting pigs. New forms of swine flu is a new type of H1N1, while bird flu is H5N1.
Experts fear H5N1 as a potential cause pendemi ability bermutasi quickly.
But until now the disease is still a bird disease. Those infected are those associated with poultry and cases of transmission from human to human is very rare – there are no signs that H5N1 can spread from human to human easily.

Milk often recommended to be consumed when you want to healthy. However, you at random should not drink milk, especially milk that came from cows. Because if you drink milk that contains high saturated fat content, it will potentially cause the disturbance of health.

Scientists in Northern Ireland, accidentally found milk low level cholesterol, 35%, because the fatty acid is not  bored 26% lower than normal milk. The milk afterwards it was known was received from cows that eat the seeds of radish 600 g ram each day.

During this coffee too far “stamped” as a beverage that is not healthful. However, in a scientific meeting, experts would declare coffee may prevent type two diabetes, and even reduce the risk of the occurrence of several types of cancer.

In the meeting that discussed the benefits and risks of coffee, the Dr.Rob van Dam from the Harvard School of Public Health, delivered the results of research on coffee consumption and diabetes. “We are in a situation where coffee had a bad image for the health,” he said.

Arab Dr.Lenore from UCLA Medical School also took part in the Experimental Biology 2007 meeting it. He presented results of research that analyzes 400 studies that examine the benefits of coffee and the risk of cancer.

According to him there is evidence why a drink may be against cancer, particularly bowel cancer, rectal and liver cancer. Suspected of coffee reduces the cholesterol content, bile acid and sterol issue in the large intestine natural, speed sewage disposal in the large intestine (kotensi will reduce the causes of cancer in the food), and also through other mechanisms. However, according to the Arabs, found the impact of bad coffee, that is, increase the risk of stomach cancer and leukimia.

Added by van Dam, although it found the benefits of coffee, but the people who are at risk such as pregnant women and children should reduce the consumption of coffee.

Currently, van Dam and his team are doing clinical testing for the benefit coffee in diabetes prevention, which was first reported in 2002. Since then, he says nothing less, there are more than 20 studies on the same topic.

He and his team are examining hundreds of even thousands of coffee components that are suspected to cause the effect (the diabetes). “Maybe not the caffeine, because drinking coffee and non berkafein caffeine has the same effect in reducing the risk of diabetes,” he said. Acid is the candidate most chlorogenik, which function as antioxidants that work to reduce glucose absorption in the intestine.

Eat Before Drinking Coffee Prevent Diabetes
Some of the types of food and beverages can be as nutritious peredam disease suffered. One of them is to muffle the excess blood sugar by drinking coffee before eating or when stomach is empty. Of course, for those of you who do not have a problem with the stomach. Therefore according to the research and research results from Alan L Rubin, MD, assistant clinical professor at the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine, Diabetes for Dummies author.

According to USDA studies and other studies, drinking a cup of coffee before a meal, or when the stomach being empty can be useful down the blood sugar fluctuation up to 50%. This property may take up to throughout the day. The researchers suspect this, the coffee-rich phenols and other antioxidants, antioxidants that can increase insulin production, which is a hormone that functions to help maintain the body of blood sugar.

In addition, the mix of nutrien This can increase response of cells to insulin, so the hormone can act at the peak of efficiency. As a bonus, drink a cup of coffee before your breakfast, this can also help you reduce excess body weight, one of the risk factors of diabetes has been pressing the appetite for up to 35%. You may choose other strategies, if you are not a coffee fan or if you are in trouble with the stomach.