You’ve likely heard by now. After weeks of hesitating, the World Health Organization has declared the H1N1 virus infections to be a Level 6 on the pandemic scale, which means a pandemic has been announced. The thing is, your life is still the same. My life is still the same. Nothing has changed from the five minutes before the announcement and five minutes after the announcement. That’s what people need to remember before beginning to panic.
Here is some information that may help you learn more about pandemics, viruses, etc.
What’s the difference between a pandemic and an epidemic?

The sky isn’t falling in. We’re not all going to be wearing space suits to stay healthy. And no, we don’t have to panic, which is what some people may do when they read headlines such as the one above. That being said, the fact that the World Health Organization is considering raising the pandemic level to 6 – the highest level – is newsworthy.
Some people feel that pandemic automatically means something like the Spanish flu of the early 1900s. That’s not so. A pandemic, by definition, is an illness that has been found to be spreading beyond local areas, …read more