Vaccination is the most effective methods to fight with influenza. The public health agencies in the UK offering the immunization programme to fight with flu‚ therefore to reduce both the risk of death and serious illness from flu and the pressure on the health and social care service during the winter. People needs to take this vaccine every year‚ and like all other vaccine it is not 100 percentages effective as it could not fight with all variety of influenza viruses. The national health service in the UK
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Joey Peixoto Professor Colchico Health & Wellness 9 May 2016 Infectious Disease Influenza‚ generally known as "the flu virus"‚ is an irresistible illness brought on by a flu virus.Symptoms can be gentle to severe.The most regular indications include: a high fever‚ runny nose‚ sore throat‚ muscle torments‚ cerebral pain‚ hacking‚ and feeling tired. These indications regularly start two days after introduction to the infection and most last not exactly a week. The hack‚ nonetheless‚ may keep going
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swine flu or influenza. He couldn’t breathe without a ventilator‚ so the doctors put him in a coma so he wouldn’t feel any discomfort. After 12 days‚ he came out of his coma; however‚ the tube remained in his throats for 5 more days. After this‚ Luke was put into rehab to regain some basic living skills. After this horrible experience‚ Luke returned home weighing less and feeble. Today‚ Luke serves as a speaker for Every Child by Two‚ raising awareness about how important influenza vaccines are
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INFLUENZA ASSIGNMENT Part I 1. At the turn of the century‚ the United States encountered one of the most deadly pandemics the world has ever known - the Spanish flu. The flu‚ caused by H1N1 virus‚ claimed the lives of 675‚000 Americans during World War I. About forty years later‚ in 1957‚ another pandemics caused by H2N2 killed approximately 70‚000 Americans. The virus‚ which contained genes from human and avian influenza‚ was firstly identified in China then quickly spread to other parts of
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How worried are you about the Influenza Virus? The Influenza virus‚ commonly known as the flu‚ is a viral disease that can be infectious in mammals and birds‚ it´s caused by RNA viruses. This disease is most common between the months of October and May‚ it can last from three days to five days; it´s an acute disease‚ because manifests quickly and last a short time. There are three types of Influenza according to how severe they are; Type A: The most severe type with the most acute symptoms.
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Title: Influenza Purpose: The purpose of my speech is to educate the audience about prevention‚ treatment and how to know whether a person is suffering from the flu rather than another illness such as the common cold. Thesis Statement: There are many different ways to break the chain of infection and protect yourself and those around you from getting the flu‚ starting with something as simple as hand washing is one of the key ways to reduce your risk of many illnesses including the flu. I
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What would we do when the next flu or influenza pandemic broke out? How could we prevent the virus from spreading? In this essay‚ I am going to find an answer on these questions. In order to find the cure for an influenza pandemic‚ we first have to understand what the disease is and how it is spread. Influenza is a virus which is spread through air or by touch. Though we have antibiotics against bacterial diseases‚ there is no treatment comparable for viruses. However‚ there is a possibility to
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Avian Influenza‚ also known as the bird flu‚ is a virus that primarily infects birds. In rare cases‚ can this virus affect humans in a way that is harmful. There are three forms of the Avian Influenza which are: H5‚ H7‚ and H9 viruses. The H5 virus has circulated Asia and the Middle East in about 16 different countries worldwide. It mostly affected these countries because they have this bird species within range of human contact. The H7 virus is a type that is very uncommon in humans‚ unless they
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1/19/14 Learning Unit One - Who - Avian Influenza The Avian Influenza is a viral disease of birds which is where it got the nickname the “Bird Flu”. Most Avian Influenza viruses do not have an effect on people‚ however some do. H5N1 is a subgroup of Influenza that will cause serious illness and in some case death. Like most new diseases there is not a lot known about the bird flu and there is still a lot of research being done with this disease. Most cases of the bird flu in humans have come
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Population Dynamics Disease Lab http://www.learner.org/courses/envsci/interactives/disease/counter_virus_1.php A. LESSON #1: The Virgin Field Most diseases begin with what is called "the virgin field"—a scenario in which humans have no natural or man-made immunity to the disease. To see the progress of a disease in a particular community‚ start by predicting how many sick days will be reported when you run the Kold disease through a medium-sized population‚ and record your prediction in the data
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