Influenza vaccine

Vaccines have been one of the greatest advancements in the 20th century. The use of vaccinations has not only affected the United States, it has had a global effect. The annual global death rate from diseases has fallen from 600,000 in 2000 to to just 122,000 in 2012. The annual death rate has gone down by 79 percent (“Understanding Vaccines”). It is important to reserve all recommended vaccines so that the level of disease stays down. There are many vaccines that are recommended, each of…

Vaccinating Children against the Seasonal Influenza Imagine yourself as a parent or a concerned third party and not having to worry about your child getting the flu every season. All of the school days the child is going to miss due to coming down with the seasonal flu. Now it is possible for many children to be immunized against the seasonal influenza viruses. Children, in particular, are more vulnerable than others; why? They tend to socialize with sick children without knowing It and their…

Case 53: Influenza Questions and activities: 1. First of all, he should take Tylenol extra strenght but the dose doesnt exceed than 2 caplets every six hours, in addition to cold compresses for the forehead and back head to lower the fever . 2. The three types of flu viruses are A, B, and C.Type A infects animal and human. Type B infects human only which cause the annual influenzaepidemics. The perecentage of the population sniffling, aching,and running fevers have up to 20 %.Also, Type C…

Ecological Model as a Framework for Determinants of 2009 H1N1 Influenza Vaccine Uptake in the US.” A Social ecological model framework (SEM) approach focuses on population- level and individual-level determinants of health and interventions. Based on the theory, individual behavior is influenced by personal and environmental factors. In this article, they use a comprehensive SEM to evaluate influenza vaccine uptake during the 2009 H1N1 pandemic. A SEM consists…

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 (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,…

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…

Pro-Vaccines Vaccines are part of the human history and without it some of us would not be around anymore. There have been many outbreaks of disease spread throughout the US and the only way to contain it was through vaccines. It is important to have the knowledge about vaccines since they are part of our schedule maintenance for our body. Because of the many diseases that are contained at this time, the lost of interest has dissipated on the importance of vaccines, but recently, new…

The influenza virus has become so deadly, due to its ability to mutate seasonally, through a process called reassortment. This involves the recombination of large genetic segments from several viral strains, which causes small genetic changes to be passed on to create a new type of daughter virus (4). Influenza viruses can do this by antigenic drift, which is when” dominant strains from the previous year have changed its surface structure enough to make the effectiveness of the flu vaccine…

The Effects of Money-Priming on Decision Making Thomas Payne 41311823 University of Canterbury Abstract In this study we tested the effects of money-priming on the decisions made by students at University of Canterbury surrounding flu vaccination. 447 students in the PSYC106 class labs at UC were tested in a money-priming group and control group to see if mentioning money would make the participants more selfish. The results showed that money-priming had little effect…