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Vaccines are the most effective way to prevent virus infection
The flu epidemic has anticipated the cold weather and Catalonia reached last week. This is the weekly newsletter detailing published yesterday by the Government, which quantifies in 130 cases of influenza per 100,000 population recorded in late January. The figure exceeds the threshold of 100 cases from which it is considered that one can speak of an epidemic.
Most cases in Catalonia have a common viral illness, without any detected effects of the new H1N1 flu. The virus that causes it, which sparked international alarm in 2009, little has been detected worldwide and only a majority in Mexico, details the System Influenza Surveillance Institute Carlos III.
The Department of Health advises that the vaccine is the most effective way to prevent infection and follows the evolution of the epidemic through comprehensive emergency plan to determine whether to open more beds in health centers. Doctors consulted advised that the epidemic is often transmitted from children to seniors, they recommended to the population at risk, over 60 years to avoid as far as possible the physical contact with their grandchildren.
The cold wave may temporarily alleviate the epidemic because it is expected that low temperatures the next few days to reduce contact between people. In the whole of Spain, the incidence of influenza is greater, with 196 cases per 100,000 inhabitants. This trend indicates that the epidemic still has extensive experience in Catalonia.
The danger of physical contact
The current technological changes do not result in loss of time arguing about whether Internet citizens should have equal rights or different from those that is in the physical world. The current time and speed of change demands action.
Last November, Australia has published a new draft, which considers its Privacy Principles, which are the source of a series of reforms to current laws and regulations on the protection of individual rights, adapted to the XXI Century.
While Australia is not the only country which seeks to adapt its regulations to current technological changes, is one of the few countries that makes it continuously over time, influenced if, for international movements and guidelines of the Organization for Cooperation and European Economic Development (OECD) since the ’80s but, above all for your interest in providing its citizens protection tools with the times.
The proposed amendments to the Australian Privacy Principles (APP) seek to offer current regulations the following qualities:
* Consistency, simplicity and clarity so that it is easy to understand and apply in practice.
* Technologically neutral is not that “tied” to a technology available today but that could be quickly replaced in the future. This also implies the use of neutral language.
* Fair with the principles and obligations of agencies and governmental and private organizations.
* Adapted to the legislation “cross-border”, i.e. the personal information that may be trafficked between different countries (transnational) to apply the principles that govern the Internet.
* Providing legal tools to facilitate the court’s evaluation of new forms of commission of crime.