Archive for February, 2009

Globalization indeed has made our world a smaller place. People from different places migrate to other countries in search of greener pastures. Along with the migration comes the highest possibility of carrying diseases as well. Take for example, aH1N1. It was known to us as “swine flu” and was declared a pandemic by World Health Organization on June 11, 2009. No one can actually say where the virus originated, though Wikipedia mentioned about virus isolation from patients in the US and found out that it’s actually made up from four genetic elements from four different flu viruses. So how come that in such a span of four months, 74 countries have been officially reported to have AH1N1 cases resulting to 4,735 casualties? The contamination is really fast because the virus travelled by air. They are among those passengers who devoured time zones, crossed international boundaries and travelled across seas by airplanes.