H1N1

Swine influenza (H1N1) is an infection by any one of several types of swine influenza virus. Swine influenza virus (SIV) is any strain of the influenza family of viruses that is endemic in pigs. The first few cases in the 2009 epidemic came from USA and Mexico. It was feared that it will become a major global pandemic but it was overestimated and millions of vaccines and advertising was wasted. Like in the case of SARS, a short term effect is that health-care workers feel traumatized when working in a hospital with H1N1 cases as they risk getting infected, so lesser people would want to be health workers. The outbreak is able to paralyze the tourism industry in Singapore. The virus has appeared just when the global travel industry is ailing. In the present situation, Singapore tourism is definitely going to decline in the tourism industry because of Asia's heightened sensitivity to bird flu and such related flu disease threats. The tourism industry of the most happening tourism destination of Asia that is Singapore will suffer because the health ministries of various countries have advised its citizens to avoid trips to the region where the swine flu outbreak has hit.