Add to your...
A number of cases of the swine flu in Texas and the state of California were being
tracked by the Public Health Agency of Canada. It was found that none of the infected
persons had direct contact with swine, so the US centers for prevention and control of
diseases continue to investigate and determine the actual source of the virus infection.
People all over the country and world wide were being advised to receive the seasonal
influenza vaccine, wash their hands regularly, stay at home, wear respirators and
facemasks, cover their sneezes and coughs, and to be alert to identify the swine flu
symptoms. The H1N1 flu is basically a respiratory infection and is very common in pigs.
The transmission of this virus from pigs to human beings is rare but it is easily
transmitted from human to human.
The first swine flu death was that of a toddler who travelled from Mexico to Texas and
died in a hospital in Houston. Pregnant women are at a greater risk of being infected.
Deaths of three pregnant women have been reported in the US out of which one was a
33 year old Texas woman who delivered her baby while she was in the hospital and
later succumbed to the virus. In all, at least 4000 cases of swine flu were confirmed in
the US – most of who were of the ages 18 and under, though officials feel the real
number of infected people is much higher.
Apart from the usual precautions advised by the World Health Organization and
Governments world wide, it is wise to sanitize one’s surroundings and take extra care
about one’s personal hygiene. The best way to ensure this is to use the Smittstopp
spray which can be used on any surface. This spray bonds extremely well to the
surface and the effect of the spray lasts for a very long time. Tests have shown that
clothes sprayed with Smittstopp have not lost its protection even after 20 washes. The
Smittstopp spray leaves a thin cationic polymer layer on the surface after it dries. This
layer of cationic polymer is positively charged and because of electrostatic attraction, it
attracts the negatively charged (anionic) viruses and bacteria to it. When these
infectious microorganisms get stuck to the sprayed surface, they get killed almost
instantaneously.
The Smittstopp spray should be used on all items including personal ones like keys,
pens, mobile phones and bags. Places that are crowded like malls, bus terminals,
hospitals, clinics and educational institutions should make it mandatory to spray
Smittstopp on taps, switches, table tops, rails, banisters, door knobs and handles etc.
This will ensure that the viruses do not breed, or spread around.
The Smittstopp spray is positively charged and acts as a cleaner that gets rid of fats,
grease and dirt as well as a disinfectant. No common cleaner should be used on top of
the Smittstopp sprayed surface because these cleaners are negatively charged and
thus will neutralize the effect of the spray.
Looking for effectiveness in keeping the swine flu in Texas at bay, the US and
Mexican Governments imposed restrictions that shut down public places like
museums, restaurants, libraries etc so that crowds would not congregate and people
would stay at home. While it is stressed that it is humans and not the swine who are
responsible in spreading the infectious swine flu, people all over the world have cut
back on eating pork. It is of utmost importance to continue to follow all precautionary
measures strictly.