Swine influenza

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 could be rapidly collected. After being declared a global epidemic in early June 2009, there were 94,000 cases that had laboratorial confirmation of the influenza by July 2009 and the outbreak was not considered ‘over’ until August 2010. Within the short…

of his friends. This made me really angry at him, I expect him to give me love and support but all he did was to humiliate me in front of his friends. As the years go by our relationship never got better but only worsened. I would always feel upset and angry at my brother. It got to a point where I would be jealous of the siblings I see on television. The older brother would always be portraited as a loving and caring brother to his own sister. The thought of not having a caring brother often…

Hello! I am Hana Pfeiffer and I am thirteen years old. I am super excited to be participating in my very first year in 4-H. Every year I go to the fair and ever since I was really young I wanted to participate in the fun! This year I contacted a family friend and before I knew it I was in the club, Barnyard Tails! This year I am raising pigs because we know many people that have done or are doing them. They recommended swine for my first year. Before we got the pigs, we started building…

When I was in junior high, my friend who was Mexican came on the bus crying and I was trying to calm him down and have him explain to me why he was so upset. He told me that because they said the swine flu came from Mexico the kids in his class called him dirty, they also said to him that they didn 't want to get sick and that he should go back to Mexico. It really made me view people differently how could kids who are 12, 13 say such racist remarks. This brings me to what I am hoping to learn…

We always assume tragedy won’t hit close to home. We read in newspapers, or watch on the news about someone getting killed, people going into the movies and shooting, or people getting these crazy sickness’ and passing away, but we never think any of that could happen to us, one of the people that we love. I never thought that any of that could have happened either. But for our senior class, it happened to one of our loved ones. I was climbing in to bed when I got the phone call that Tyler was…

INTRODUCTION Two significantly 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…

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…

Animal products contaminated with bacteria such as Salmonella, Campylobacter, and E. coli are responsible for some of the food-borne illnesses and fatal infections that people get. The 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…

“English Sweat,” “Grippe,” “Influenza,” and “Swine Flu” are some of the common names that stand for the flu. It had been recorded way back into Ancient Greek History by a father of medicine, Hippocrates, who wrote down in his journal, the flu-like symptoms, which appeared in patients. Back then and today scientists cannot completely get rid of the flu. This type of virus can survive under extremely cold temperature. Kelly (2011) said, “Scientists have discovered viruses frozen in the ice of…

The source of Influenza comes from wild bird’s right around the 1900s and spread very quickly to other birds that died. Some of these wild birds were carriers of the Influenza virus who passed the virus through the air onto other animals such as chickens, and then passed it on to pigs who then passed it on to humans. The symptoms of the Flu are fever, coughing, sneezing, and severe pain of the body starting in the respiratory area which is highly contagious and is spread through the air from…