H1N1 in the view of Festivals

One of the largest sommer festival is the hungarian SZIGET Festival. It will begin tonight in the Hajógyári sziget, and ends at 15th of August.



The mass that will be there has to be protected from the new culminating , called H1N1 which has been never circulated amongs human. Therefor it is good to be acquainted with the person-to-person spreading ability of this dangerous virus.

The background of the H1N1

H1N1 is a new influenza virus, we are emphasing: new, which is being spread all over the world. In some cases it can be unpleasant. Its major symptoms are the following: fever, dry cough, sore throat, body aches, headache, chills, runny nose and extreme fatigue, sometimes vomiting and diarrhoea. It is easy to catch through the following ways:
- handshaking: The influenza virus attaches easily to your fingers and areas such as door handles and may be contracted when you shake hands.
- coughing, sneezing: by this way the influenza can get into the bend of your arm


That’s why we recommend to avoid covering your mouth with your arms, and washing them often, even if you have a norvegian-fishery arms, which are resisting to anything bad things. It can be recommended if you use some alcohol-based cleaning stuff, outside and inside (beer-yeah).

The vaccine

When the mankind faces with similar pandemic challenges they try to figure out which alternative is the best way to subdue the attacker. The vaccine proved the best way. In Hungary, the new vaccine production is urged and WHO has been investigates the safety concerns of it and didn’t find any of them. In the end of September will available the new vaccine, at that time will be approved its release.

Sziget Commando

Sziget commando has been estabilished to fend off the new influenza. Sziget’s Health Service is ready to take a leap to the precaution measures when the situation needs. They stocked with some medicine, but in the case of direct observation of H1N1’s symptomes a helicopter will deliver the patients to the László Szent Hospital, and every ill-people will be reported to the National Epidemiology Centre.

Doctors and the Web

As we well know, pharmaceutical industry has been spending

enormous volumen of money on online marketing.

According to the statement from TNS Media Intelligence the world biggest medicinemaker firm, Pfizer Inc. spent 65 million dollar in period between january and september 2006. And naturally, the spending ablility and willingness were growing during the last years until nowadays, when a new historically juncture has arised.

There are some missbelief that we have to re-consider in connection with pharma industry on Internet.

1. "doctors are not surfing on the Internet so much" - it's baloney. Survies and another datas showed that 82% of oncologists, 60% of psychiatrists, 54% of neurologists, and last but not least 68% of cardiologists use the internet regularly.

2. "it's difficult to reach doctors on the Internet" - it's simply not true. As a result of mentioned missbelief, doctors are available ont he Internet. They are quastionable, we can share our problems, dubious asks and opinions. Numerous portal are running with the aim of online webdoctoring. These sites are able to bring leading edge technology to enhance your medical information experience. We can find all of our medical answers and needs right there. These sites are formed like any other forums. Take for instance http://webdoctor.nexenservices.com/ ;

3. „Those doctors who use Internet are allways looking for non-professional columns and stuffs” – i can assure you, they do such a thing, but another things too.

Did you know physicians are more likely than consumers to use the web and other technologies to access information? A new white paper from Manhattan Research,

‘Physician and the Web 2.0’

, states that

physicians are embracing Web 2.0 technologies

-- podcasting, social media networks, online video, blogs -- in large numbers. In fact, the study notes that more than 25,000 physicians are actively reading and posting to blogs and more than 80,000 doctors participate in online communities. For these physicians, the online landscape is evolving into an interactive forum for information sharing and education. And it’s not just the young docs who grew up on the Internet -- the report notes that an older generation of more experienced physicians want to share their ideas through this new interactive medium.

Think of all the innovative ways you can share health, medical and treatment information with physicians. Evolve your marketing strategies to make your information portable and available in new formats. Now is the time, because your doctor is more than just online.