• Drink plenty of fluids.
• Keep a glass of water handy when you are resting.
• Filling a pitcher with water in the fridge can be a reminder if you aren’t drinking enough.
• Avoid touching your eyes, nose, and mouth. This may be one of the best ways to avoid the flu.
• Stay away from people who have symptoms such as coughing and sneezing.

This vaccine is useful for both infants and for adults. If you are giving a dose to an infant give him 0.25ml. This dose is based on previous influenza vaccine efficiency, due to a lack of testing on this specific vaccine. H1N1 Vaccine is also useful for pregnant women. They can use this vaccine during the period of pregnancy too.

Children under age 10 are recommended to receive two doses of the vaccine, 4 weeks apart, to achieve full protection. The good thing about this vaccine is that if some suffer from its side effect they will not cause any serious problem and they will also last for only two days.

The technology which is used in H1N1 Vaccine is almost the same as in decades; therefore it is very safe and reliable. . There are two types of the H1N1 Vaccine. Flu Shot and other one is Nasal Spray. Flu shot is an inactivated vaccine containing fragments of killed influenza virus, and a nasal spray is made to weakened a live flu virus.

The pandemic influenza is a new virus, and virtually everyone is susceptible to infect from it. To get rid of this virus H1N1 Vaccine is present there to help you. By using these vaccine viruses in the Swine Flu shot are killed and you will not get the flu from a flu shot. The people who had severe allergy to chicken eggs, severe reaction to an influenza vaccination, Children younger than 6 months of age are advice to not use H1N1 Vaccine

According to Health Canada, based on the results of thousands of clinical trials around the world, it is satisfied the vaccine is safe. And the adjuvant, a chemical product that boosts the immune response, has been tested on thousands with the H5N1 avian flu drug and proven effective, the regulator says.

The vaccine confers more than 90-per-cent immunity in healthy adults, more than the seasonal flu vaccine. Researchers cannot do studies in millions of people before licensing a vaccine, which would be too time-consuming during a pandemic. Post-licensing surveillance, in which people report their side effects, will be conducted in Canada.

Avian influenza is an infectious disease of birds. Avian influenza viruses are rarely transmitted from birds to humans, and most of these cases have occurred from direct or close contact with infected poultry or contaminated surfaces. H5N1 virus does not usually infect people; however, a few cases of human-to-human spread of H5N1 virus have occurred.

Two main implications for human health from avian influenza are following:

• The first implication is of contracting a direct infection if the virus passes from the infected bird to humans, resulting in very severe disease. H5N1 has caused the largest number of cases of severe disease and death in humans. Primary viral pneumonia and multi-organ failure are common among people with avian influenza. The disease caused by H5N1 follows an unusually aggressive clinical course, with rapid deterioration and high fatality. More than half of those infected with the virus have died in the present outbreak.
• A second implication is that, the virus – if given enough opportunities – may mutate into a form that is extremely contagious for humans and spreads easily from person to person. Such a change could mark the start of a pandemic (a global outbreak).

In initial stages, the bird flu or avian influenza manifests symptoms very similar to the common flu. Symptoms of bird flu in humans have ranged from typical flu-like symptoms fever, cough, sore throat and muscle aches to eye infections, pneumonia, severe respiratory diseases such as acute respiratory distress, and other severe and life threatening complications.

But avian influenza cannot be diagnosed by symptoms alone, so a laboratory test is required. Usually a swab from the nose or throat is gathered during the first few days of illness. This swab is then sent to a laboratory, where the sample is put through a molecular test and other procedures or they will try to grow the virus. Avian influenza viruses are grown in laboratories with intensive protection. If it is late in the illness, it may be difficult to find an avian influenza virus by using these methods. In this case, it may still be possible to diagnose avian influenza by looking for evidence of the body’s response to the virus. This is not always an option because it requires two blood specimens, one taken during the first few days of illness and another taken some weeks later, and it can take several weeks to verify the results.