Swine Influenza - Kids are more affected!!!

I have the watched the Philippine evening news last night and I am so shocked knowing that the number of people affected by this illness is increasing rapidly, It have gone up to 111 cases as of yesterday and to my surprise that mostly children are the one affected.

When I first knew that a 10 year old kid is the first one who was diagnose to have swine influenza here in the Philippines, I am not so worried and hoping that it will stop there but 2 weeks later more and more people are being affected.

I even instructed my family to take more water everyday, take at least 500mg of vitamin c each day and I asked them not to take my nephew out in the open especially to unclean areas.

I even asked them to make sure that every time they came home they need to wash their hands thoroughly and do not touch anything inside the house unless they have washed their hands.

There are so many ways to prevent this epidemic and it has to start from each and everyone of us especially at home. Up to these date i have no idea if there is a cure for these virus. The only good thing I have heard from the news that the finding for those people who have been affected is not yet alarming according to the Department of Health because the stage is not yet so risky. Still it's a virus and those people need cure.

We should always remember that prevention is better than cure.