Avian influenza

Dear Emperor Akihito and Prime Minister Shinzō Abe, I assume by now you all have heard of the horrible virus that was released into the North and South Americas. Let me allow you to brief you all of the effects of the virus. Instead of killing people by the dozens, the virus has caused those affected to turn into walking corpses. The virus has has dissipated, however those carrying the virus has transfer it by their saliva. Recent news has shown that the zombies will be reaching Southeast Asia…

When a pandemic event strikes… Good day class the movie I chose for my speech is the inspired by the 2011 pandemic thriller Contagion. The plot of the movie appears to follow the big H1N1 and SARS scare of 2009 that left many citizens uncertain about the actual risk of the virus. The movie is about the spread of a virus Known as the Meningoencephalitis Virus One (MEV-1). transmitted by fomites. Fomites, is any object or substance capable of carrying infectious organisms, such as germs or…

The influenza virus was infecting its hosts long before the discovery of viruses in the late 1800’s. The longevity of the virus can be attributed to its ability to quickly mutate its genome, which consists of only eight negative-sense RNA segments. These small mutations allow the virus to rapidly evolve. In fact, approximately every twenty to thirty years the virus evolves into a “super virus” capable of causing significant pandemics (Webster, 2014). The influenza A virus is the envelope virus…

This report investigates the disease Swine flu, also known as human swine influenza or H1N1 Influenza. An outbreak of this disease has already occurred in the recent past as it made headlines back in 2009 when it was declared a pandemic because of the factors that is was a contagious disease quickly affecting many people throughout the world or on multiple continents at once. The virus had not previously been identified meaning the flu had extreme research put into so that information on it…

scientists are warning of a possible worldwide epidemic involving a killer virus that they believe does not even exist yet. Avian influenza also known as bird flu, is an emerging infectious disease that is extremely contagious, spreads quickly and easily between domestic and wild birds, and it often infects humans, though it is not passed on between humans. Avian influenza A (H5N1) was first reported to infect a human in 1997 in Hong Kong; 6 additional confirmed and 2 possible cases were…

recent cases of H759 avian influenza moving from poultry to humans make many people think about the transmission and spread of zoonotic diseases. New strains of influenza that can infect humans and biotic resistant are a new concern for humans. Avian and swine influenza is caused by influenza a virus that has 2 different subtypes. Avian and swine influenza usually has a widespread morality of turkeys and chickens. The infection in poultry is ow pathogenicity avian influenza (LPAI), which has 2…

Canine influenza, or CIV for short, is an emerging pathogen that produces an acute respiratory infection in dogs. Originally, the hosts of the influenza virus were equine and avian animals who then passed the virus onto canines (Wang et al. 1). It is highly contagious and has two main causative strains. The H3N2 strain comes from avian animals, and the H3N8 strain comes from equine animals. The H3N2 strain of CIV first appeared in a limited capacity in 2007 in Asia until 2015, when it made…

Influenza is one of the major respiratory virus that causes nearly annual epidemics and occasional pandemics. Influenza epidemics generally occur in the winter months in the Northern hemisphere and May-September in the Southern hemisphere (Cox et al, 2004). This virus belongs to the genus Orthomyxovirus in the family of Orthomyxoviridae. Influenza A viruses are enveloped RNA virus with eight RNA segments that encodes for upto 11 viral genes ( Lamb &Krug ,2001, Fields virology, 4th edt. ).The…

Influenza Tuskegee University Karina M. Caines NURS 320 March 27, 2017 TABLE OF CONTENTS Table of Contents Type chapter title (level 1) 1 Type chapter title (level 2) 2 Type chapter title (level 3) 3 Type chapter title (level 1) 4 Type chapter title (level 2) 5 Type chapter title (level 3) 6 ABSTRACT This is an in-depth clinical paper that will discuss the highly contagious respiratory tract illness, influenza, most commonly referred to as the flu. The purpose of this paper…

important highly pathogenic infection diseases namely Legionellosis and Influenza remains even today a threat to global health. They can cause severe community-acquired pneumonia with respiratory failure but they can also generate hospital-acquired infections.1 Moreover Legionella infection could attribute to influenza infection. The cause of influenza was definitively resolved back in 1930s with the isolation of swine influenza; a virus which when administered intranasally to susceptible…