Influenza-like illness

college campuses become a breeding ground for sickness. An illness can be easily passed from person to person through daily contact.There is an ongoing study for tracking respiratory illness among students, especially at college.They are performing this experiment by using nasal swabs and breath sample from the students. This study is mainly aimed at acute respiratory infections due to influenza viruses. The most common way that the influenza is spread is through coughing, sneezing or touch. The…

incidence and epidemiology of influenza. Influenza, or flu, is a viral infection that affects the respiratory system. There are three types of influenza virus: A, B, and C (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 2014). Types A and B are responsible for the occurrence of seasonal epidemics that affect up to 20% of the population each year. Type C is not usually associated with epidemics, and symptoms are typically mild in comparison to Type A and B flu virus. Influenza causes between…

Flu Vaccination Influenza (flu) is a contagious viral infections of the respiratory tract caused by the influenza viruses that can cause mild to severe illness. Severe outcomes of flu infection can result in hospitalization or death (Influenza (Flu) Viruses, 2014). It is estimated that 5% to 20% of the population of United States (US) gets the flu and of those over 200,000 are hospitalized from the flu or from flu-related complications (Seasonal Influenza Q&A, 2014). In the last 30 years…

retching; thirst and dehydration; severe pain in the limbs, stomach, and abdominal muscles; a change skin hue to a sort of bluish-grey” (Douglas). This illness claimed approximately one million two hundred and fifty thousand people from 1831-1832 and 1847-1851. Another common disease in this era was influenza, or common day flu, common to today’s influenza the symptoms included fever, chills, muscle aches, cough, congestion, runny nose, headaches, dehydration and fatigue. This is an airborne…

The Influenza virus is a very common virus. Three to five million people are infected each year. There are 250,000 to 500,000 deaths from the influenza virus each year.(www.who.int) The most common people to get infected are: Pregnant women, young children or people with rather weak immune systems. There are so many side symptoms, that include: fever, headache, dry cough, sore throat, shaking chills, severe muscle or body aches, runny or stuffy nose and short term cases of fatigue. It also…

Generation Like Summarize The Generation Like video explains to the viewer’s how younger people of this new generation use social media’s in order to feel accepted by their peers and at the same time using them as a way to promote advertisements for different companies. The first part of this video introduces the viewer to a group of younger people brainstorming ideas in order to get the most “likes” on their Facebook profile pictures, while this is happening Douglas Rushkoff is asking…

process was hard.” The reason she thought it was hard is because she thought she knew it all. What definitely made her pick her career was it has everything Tiffany enjoys doing. Such as, socializing, overcoming obstacles, and problem solving. “I like the feeling after overcoming an obstacle.” Tiffany came from Tulsa and she did not have anything so she basically lived in her car. Once she moved to Oklahoma City she was…

I was and who I am attracted to. I always had a skewed view on what liking someone truly meant. These days I have accepted my bisexuality because it molded a good portion of who I am as a person today. I was conditioned and taught that boys always likes girls. That is just how it is. In movies and T.V. shows they always had the male role and the female love interest. The handsome dashing prince saves the beautiful graceful princess. It is a story that is told time over time. It burns into my…

Throughout my life I’ve known plenty of people, and quite a few of them ended up being rather toxic. This particular debacle began over vacation on the cusp of autumn. My sister and two of our friends were together on a trip to Newport, Rhode Island, and on the two hour car ride there, one friend, I’ll call her A (I don’t want to use any names), threatened to reveal a long-time secret kept between her and another of my friends who was also my boyfriend, J, which had the codename of “Muskrat.”…

This theory would lead to what we like to call brand loyalty. This occurs when customers purchase products only from a certain company that they have had good experiences with in the past and almost refuse to buy products from other companies. PRODUCT SATISFACTION 3 Brand loyalty is what every company should strive to get from one hundred percent of their customers. Having this means that you have sold them on all of your products regardless…