Influenza pandemic

The Influenza virus The Influenza virus has a unique background and history as it was discovered in the early 1900’s. Humans and animals are affected by influenza. Therefore, Influenza is characterized by how it is transmitted, its symptoms and treatments, and the impact it has on the populations in which it has spread to. The transmission of the Influenza virus is unique in that it is not just a virus that humans get and it is hard to contain because both animals and humans spread the virus…

Influenza (flu) is a highly transmissible viral infection that is accountable for major respiratory illness epidemics around the world, usually in the winter months. Unlike the common cold, influenza can cause severe illness and life-threatening complications such as pneumonia and bronchitis, which often require hospitalization. Unlike the common cold, The flu virus is especially dangerous for elderly people, pregnant women, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and very young children,…

spreading around. Miner then turned all of his time and effort to try and calm this flu down as soon as possible. Influenza was just a flu that started in a county named Haskell in Kansas. This flu came with an impact on a couple of cities. The first few cases went from Satanta to Sublette to Santa Fe to Jean to Copeland, and even to isolated farms. This was a very serious case of influenza that they have never seen before. This flu was known to be a very tough flu to get rid of, but it was a…

Influenza is an infectious disease caused by the influenza virus. It’s a contagious disease that spreads around the United States every year and affects up to three million people every year, between October and May. The flu is an upper respiratory illness that affects the nose, throat, and lungs. It’s often confused with the common cold. According to WebMD there are three types of flu viruses: A, B, and C. Type A and B cause the annual influenza epidemics that have up to 20% of the population…

Now stop and think for a minute that immunizing your child against the flu is possible thanks to modern medicine. Most pediatricians endorse flu vaccine and encourage parents or legal guardians to give them to their children and that is one of their duties as healthcare providers. One of the accomplishment of health science is the vaccines, and they are a lot of diseases now forgotten because of the vaccines developments over the years. Imagine yourself a concerned parent that does not have to…

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…

The burden of diseases Ebola in Guinea infects people regardless age, gender or economic status. The distribution is very rapid and the contagiousness is very high. The poverty level is very high in Guinea. But, I believe that the contagiousness is not related to the situation of poverty in the Country. However, the poverty can affect the compliance of the basis hygiene rules (hand washing) that can facilitate the contamination. Ebola outbreak is a real burden of diseases on the health care…

Viruses; Who is the Beholder? The greatest threat to humanity can’t be seen by the untrained eye. It could lay dormant for millions of years and evolve into the most terrifying form of itself. These infectious viruses create worldwide terror. The 2011 film Contagion by Steven Soderbergh does an incredible but also frightening job of revealing how a lethal virus would impact the Earth. The deadly virus started in nature, transported around the world through fomites and living creatures, and then…

A-2 The black plague spread quickly throughout Europe. In Tuscany the death rate ran high from 60 percent. They had no explanation for the plague and some blamed the Jews. Boccaccio’s Decameron is a collection of stories that represented life during and after the plague. The stories are about a boy and a woman who escaped Florence and moved to the countryside. Boccaccio who had lived through the plague wrote 100 stories about it describing in details what the setting in Florence was like when…

Jamela Mavrakis Anderson, Fever 1793 (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000), 249pgs. The Epidemic of Yellow Fever, 1793 Fever 1793 portrays a young fourteen year old girl, Matilda Cook, who lives in Philadelphia as an epidemic sweeps through know as, Yellow Fever. Yellow fever is a disease that starts with fever and muscle ache. Then, targets often become jaundiced; this is where “Yellow” fever comes from. Although Fever 1793 is historical fiction, Anderson achieved massive amounts of research to…