Avian influenza

The 2009 H1NI influenza strain had a large impact on the health of American people as well as the citizens of 74 other countries around the world (flu.gov). The first case of H1N1 was diagnosed on April 15, 2009 and was a 10 year old boy who lived in California and was participating in a clinical study. The boy’s case could not be identified as the standard seasonal flu and his sample was sent to the CDC for further testing. The CDC determined that virus was new to humans and first began as a…

Chloe Duke 10/10/15 Ak Studies My memory of the Spanish Influenza Epidemic in Alaska is very vivid in my mind. I remember hearing about it first happening in the lower 48. To be more specific in Boston and then how it spread the flu to Philadelphia all spreading from shipyard to shipyard, boat to boat, person to person. On September 17, a ship docked at the Puget Sound Naval Station, which is near Seattle, Washington, where longshoremen loaded steamships that happened to be bound for…

study of influenza virus evolution is not new. In fact, humans have been studying influenza viruses since the beginning of the 18th century. Three types of influenza viruses exist: A, B and C. Influenza B is a strain of influenza virus with the ability to cause severe epidemics. Although influenza A and B have similar structure, genome organization, and epidemiology, they have several important differences which imply that their evolutionary dynamics differ. Unlike influenza A viruses, influenza…

Influenza virus H7N9 is commonly known as the avian flu. The avian flu is a viral infection. H7N9 is a subcategory of the type A Influenza virus. H7N9 is predominantly found in poultry. It is rare, but humans can be infected with H7N9. Humans are at risk of contracting H7N9 by handling, living amongst, ingest, and comes in close contact with live or dead infected poultry. The virus can be transmitted via ingestion, direct contact, airborne, and the introduction of contaminates to the mucus…

erupted that seemed as benign as the common cold. The influenza of that season, however, this was far more than a cold. It is known as the deadliest in history, infected an estimated 500 million people worldwide, about one-third of the planet's population and killed an estimated 20 million to 50 million victims. The flu was most deadly for people ages 20 to 40. It infected 28% of all Americans. an estimated 700,000 Americans died of influenza during the pandemic, ten times as many as in the…

Hildegard Peplau. Peplau was born in 1909 in Pennsylvania. She saw the devastating effects of the flu epidemic in 1918, which greatly influenced how she understood how illness and death impacted families. Peplau graduated from the Pottstown, Pennsylvania School of Nursing in 1931 and worked as a staff nurse in Pennsylvania and New York City. She earned her Bachelor’s Degree in Interpersonal Psychology in 1943. She then earned her Master’s and Doctoral degree’s from Teacher’s College, Columbia…

This influenza was specifically known as the Spanish flu and at its peak eventually killed 195,000 is a single month alone. By the end of this disease nearly one in four Americans suffered from this hyper strain of the flu and the overall death toll from the flu alone was about 700,000 Americans. To put this in comparison with World War I the death toll was only about 115,000 casualties during that one year time period. This is about 1/7th of the total death toll during the great influenza…

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Mr I is most likely suffering from influenza and this can occur even after being vaccinated against the flu because of several reasons. One possible reason is that Mr I may have got exposed to the influenza viruses either shortly before getting vaccinated or during the two-week period after vaccination (2) which is when the body is still developing immune protection. This means that there is a chance that people such as Mr I may become ill even before they have the beneficial effects of the…

Influenza (flu) is an infectious respiratory illness caused by influenza viruses. There are two primary types of influenza viruses: type A and B. Both Influenza viruses commonly spread during the flu season. Flu season is unpredictable, but is typically starts in October and ends May. Influenza occurrences are generally at their peak between December and February. Cases of influenza range from mild illnesses to life threatening. Influenza spreads by coughing, sneezing, and airborne…