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    Springfield, MO then for the second half of the week I went to colorful and breathtaking Colorado. Both were fun even though I started off the break with the flu. I started to feel bad right after school was out on Thursday. I had a fever and my body felt like it was weighted down with bricks. My mom took me to the doctor on Friday and I tested positive with the flu. The medicine that the doctor had put me on was called Tamiflu and it was supposed to help make the flu not last so long.…

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    within the country, killing more people than during World War I. The influenza pandemic had disrupted US economy, in terms of gross annual production and loss of businesses, and led to temporary banning of mass gathering and disinfection and hygiene measures by US governments, yet the increased public awareness of influenza, rise of healthcare organizations and improved public healthcare system were the greatest impacts of influenza…

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    Preventing Influenza, Youth Influenza, more commonly known as “the flu,” is a viral infection that mainly affects the respiratory tract. The respiratory tract includes organs that help you breathe, such as the lungs, nose, and throat. The flu causes many common cold symptoms, as well as a high fever and body aches. The flu spreads easily from person to person (is contagious). The flu is most common from December through March. This is called flu season. You can catch the flu virus by: •…

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    disease. I have only known one person to have it, him. I have heard of it because it is one of the questions on the Influenza administration questionnaire form. I feel it is a unique and often misdiagnosed disease. The exact cause is unknown. It is often preceded by an infectious illness such as a respiratory infection or the stomach flu. Surgery and the immunization for influenza has been linked, but both are very rare causes. The beginning symptoms are tingling…

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    The MMR Vaccine

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    The MMR vaccine has just been developed by Doctor/Scientist Maurice R. Hilleman. The MMR vaccine is made out of several scientific elements and chemicals such as sodium phosphate and glutamate. However some of the Earth’s resources that was used to make the MMR vaccine is sorbitol and sucrose. Scientists need to consider if it will all work together and need to do many tests and experiments on the elements individually and together. They need to know all about the Earth’s element whether or…

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    The Epstein-Barr Virus

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    Mono is caused by the Epstein-Barr viru. It can be spread from contact with saliva from an infected person (Infectious Mononucleosis). At this time there is no known treatment to help mononucleosis. People most commonly affected are those between 15-30 (Infectious Mononucleosis). In the 19th century the virus was first described as glandular fever. Mono was given its name by Sprunt in 1920 (Mono Through The Ages). Today we known many more things about the Epstein-Barr virus due to all the…

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    Imperatively however, there has as of late been expanded acknowledgment of the weight of norovirus illness because of critical changes in norovirus analytic examines…

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    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…

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    For many years people have used vaccines as a preventative measure for many diseases but how safe are vaccines really? The number of vaccines given to children before their sixth birthday has gradually risen over the years from a maximum of ten in 1980 to thirty six in 2013 all without questioning the purposes for these decisions. The positive effects of vaccines have been undoubtedly shown through the eradication or near eradication of diseases such as polio, smallpox and the mumps as well as…

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    report I will be talking about the Spanish influenza. The first paragraph is how it entered the United States. The second paragraph is about how many people in total died from this disease. The third paragraph is about if this flu can come back. The pandemic began in the US in March 1918, at a crowded army camp in Fort Riley, Kansas. Then, the transport of hundreds of thousands of infected troops in close physical contact between camps caused influenza to spread quickly even before troops…

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