These days in various districts of the state children are being admitted to the hospital in large numbers after suffering from common seasonal flu. Of these, about five percent are falling seriously ill, many are even getting pneumonia. In such a situation, doctors are apprehensive that every time the seasonal flu has mutated and changed its form and has become more powerful than ever. Due to this, children are getting infected faster and been sick for a long time.
Symptoms :-
The symptoms seen in children during treatment show that this time the seasonal flu virus has mutated and become very powerful. This fear is because earlier the fever used to range from 101 to 102 degrees, now it is staying up to 103 to 104 degrees. Earlier the fever used to go down with common medicines like Paracetamol, but now it is not happening. The fever has lasted for about a week, which was not the case earlier. The virus has developed immunity to earlier drugs.
What about Vaccination for seasonal flu:-
There are more than a dozen types of viruses where mutations keep happening in the flu virus. It is adept at changing its form. Therefore, till date no effective vaccine for seasonal flu has been made. Thus it is suspected that seasonal flu virus has mutated and has emerged in a new form. Thus, it needs to be investigated, which variety of it has taken a dangerous form, it is difficult to say. However, this is a gust, it will go away on its own in one to two months. The virus mutates over a short period of time. After entering the cell of the human body, it multiplies and crores of viruses are made from one virus. In this sequence its form also changes. In view of the large number of children getting sick and the dangerous symptoms, it can be said that the seasonal flu virus has become powerful. In such a situation, there is a need to do its genomic study. It os said that after every two years, the seasonal flu virus mutates and emerges as a new variant. This time he has come out in a powerful form. Which is affecting children and serious cases are increasing. This is because they do not already have antibodies against the new variant.
