The Immune Killer The influenza pandemic broke out in 1918 around the end of World War 1 and spread around the world reaching islands and villages. The virus infected anyone it could and killed millions of people. People say that since the virus targeted the immune system it was harder to treat and get antibiotics to help people. This article describes how it was just not the right time for a flu breakout due to getting over war and not having the cure for it. Weird enough people with the strongest
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Influenza (Seasonal Flu) An average of 20‚000 children below 5 years is hospitalized each year due to flu-related complications. Influenza‚ seasonal flu which is usually known as flu is a respiratory illness caused by virus. People always use the term flu to describe mild illnesses. It is very contagious and commonly spread through cough and sneezes of infected person. The best way to prevent flu is to get the seasonal influenza vaccine each year. Children 6months and older are encouraged to get
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Others have questioned the need to increase influenza vaccination rates among HCWs‚ claiming that HCWs should simply avoid patient contact when ill. Unfortunately‚ although HCWs say that they will stay home when sick‚ in reality‚ many HCWs routinely come to work with symptoms of influenza-like illness.32‚46‚47 In addition‚ people may shed influenza virus during the 24 hours before the onset of clinical illness48 or in the absence of clinical symptoms‚49 which enables HCWs to transmit the virus to
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Informative Speech October 2‚ 2011 Preventing the Influenza Virus Along with the cool‚ crisp air of the fall‚ comes the flu vaccine. The flu can be life threatening‚ but there are some things you can do to prevent getting the flu. Getting the flu vaccine‚ good hand hygiene and avoiding people who have the flu are all great ways to avoid getting sick. According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC)‚ there are two types of vaccines available. One form of the vaccine is the inactive
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that the “seasonal influenza sickens millions and cause thousands of hospitalizations and flu-related deaths” each year (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases). Influenza started in 1918. The pandemic flu from 1918 was so deadly that “in many of the victims‚ the influenza virus has invaded their lungs and caused pneumonia” (History). The flu “was first observed in Europe‚ the U.S. and parts of Asia before swiftly spreading around the world” (History). Influenza has numerous symptoms
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Another reason that the flu had such a severe impact on the U.S. military is because of the way that the military was structured and arranged during World War I. In her article‚ “The U.S. military and the Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919”‚ Carol Byerly gives information about the organization of the military into camps. Byerly uses the example of Camp Devens in Massachusetts to show how seriously the epidemic affected military camps. According to Byerly‚ the flu spread over the course of only ten
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H5N1 stands for avian Influenza‚ a kind of pandemics. Birds and poultry can get affected and transmit it to each other. Then it would infect human who attached to them and cause problem to their respiratory tract. Symptoms of avian influenza are cough‚ headache‚ nausea‚ diarrhea and even pneumonia or encephalitis. 60% of infected people died and most of them are the young adults between 10 to 19 and the old. It used to cause a huge problem for most of the countries in Asia. The essay is about the
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INTRO: Here at Quaalude Consulting Inc. we strive to provide organizations such as London Health Science Centre (LHSC) the best possible solutions for all dilemmas companies may encounter. The risk of an Influenza pandemic is seen as an external risk‚ meaning it is a risk that will arise from events outside of the company and are beyond its influence or control. The management that must be taken towards such a risk must focus on the identification but also the mitigation of their impact. Although
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flu shot. I Introduction A. 3000-49000 is the number of people per year that have died over the past 30 years from influenza according to the CDC. It started out low but keeps increasing in numbers each year. The percentage of U.S. population that gets the flu each year is on average around 20%. Over 200‚000 people are hospitalized each year due to the flu. In 2009‚ influenza was the eighth leading cause of death for men in the U.S. During 2009 and 2010 the H1N1 or swine flu caused the first
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Haemophilus influenza By Crystal Wade BL 202 A Dr. Kokan 11/10/2012 Haemophilus influenza is a gram negative rod shaped bacterium; it is a member of the pasteurellaceae family. It is aerobic but it can grow as a facultative anaerobe. From 1852 to 1933 H. influenza was thought to be the cause of influenza until its etiology was done and they discovered that it was really bacterial influenza that caused it. H. influenza does cause many other diseases. It states on Wikipedia that “H. influenza
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