that information to design a drug that prevents the infective agent from being able to do what it does. Influenza viruses are continually changing into new strains. The proteins in their outer layer change continually. Our bodies learn to defend against one influenza virus‚ but the next time we are infected with an influenza virus it is different from the previous one and we develop influenza again‚ and again. This not only effects our health but has a huge economic impact due to reduced productivity
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Abstract Influenza affects millions and causes more than 30‚000 deaths in the US every year. Vaccination has to be done annually and yet effectiveness of the vaccine is variable due to multiple strains of the Influenza virus and the difficulty in predicting the strains for vaccine production. The question I researched in this experiment is whether or not there is a significant correlation between the degree of match between the strains of Influenza and the vaccine (measured as the percentage of
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Biology How is a 21st century influenza epidemic connected to the 14th century Black Death pandemic? Connie Willis‚ in her fictional Doomsday Book‚ takes the reader on a journey through time‚ examining the devastating effects of these two diseases. Hapless Kivrin‚ the story’s heroin‚ contracts influenza in the 21st century as she prepares to travel back in time to the 14th century on a research expedition. She is accidentally sent back to the wrong decade by an influenza infected time technician and
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This article discussed how important vaccinating children is and why they wanted to recommend for annual influenza vaccination for school age children in the United States. This article was meant to make sure every child in America is safe from any diseases. This vaccine was not meant to hurt or to kill anyone. New vaccines are developing in order for people
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What is drug addiction? -Drug addiction is a complex brain disease. It is characterized by compulsive‚ at times uncontrollable‚ drug craving‚ seeking‚ and use that persist even in the face of extremely negative consequences. -Drug seeking becomes compulsive‚ in large part as a result of the effects of prolonged drug use on brain functioning and‚ thus‚ on behavior. For many people‚ drug addiction becomes chronic‚ with relapses possible even after long periods of abstinence. Drug addiction is a chronic
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worse in their backs and legs. It can be difficult to distinguish between the common cold and influenza in the early stages of these infections‚ but a flu can be identified by a high fever with a sudden onset and extreme fatigue. Influenza is a mixture of symptoms of common cold and pneumonia‚ body ache‚ headache‚ and fatigue. Diarrhea is not normally a symptom of influenza in adults. Symptoms of influenza may include fever and extreme coldness chills shivering‚ shaking‚ cough nasal congestion‚ runny
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name of this disease came to be. Another name for this virus is H1N1. According to the WHO‚ (2012): Since pigs can become infected with the influenza viruses from a variation of different hosts (such as birds and humans)‚ they can act as a “mixing vessel‚ “enabling the re-assortment of influenza genes from different viruses and forming a “new” influenza virus. The alarm is that such “new” reassortant viruses may be more easily spread from person to person or may cause more harsh diseases in humans
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Approach Considerations Treatment decisions in children with pneumonia are dictated based on the likely etiology of the infectious organism and the age and clinical status of the patient. Antibiotic administration must be targeted to the likely organism‚ bearing in mind the age of the patient‚ the history of exposure‚ the possibility of resistance (which may vary‚ depending on local resistance patterns)‚ and other pertinent history (see Etiology and Clinical Presentation). After initiating therapy
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around 500 million people worldwide from 1918 to 1919. It had a huge toll on not just population‚ but health concerning all people. This outbreak was considered to be a global disaster‚ as it had a major impact across the nation during this time. The influenza is an extremely contagious virus that affects the respiratory system. A flu pandemic arises through a new deadly virus‚ causing people with little to no immunity to catch the flu and spread it across from person-to-person‚ resulting in an outbreak
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town were taken in order to combat the disease. Davies writing is lacking in many aspects when it comes to explaining how the individual was affected‚ the symptoms‚ cures‚ and how it spread. Davies writing does not show the reader how critical the influenza that struck Camp Lewis in Washington really was‚ and instead it just gives a generic view of what occurred‚ and how it was dealt. Although the writing is lacking in many aspect it does have a few parts that are important that makes the reader understand
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