DESCRIPTION OF ORGANISM Influenza is one of the most deadly viruses dating back to 1510 causing pandemics and endemic outbreaks all the way through 2013. The classifications of the influenza strains are known as A, B, and C with different subtypes HA and NA. Influenza A virions have close to 500 HA and NA spikes sticking out of the lipid bilayer characterized by 4 main proteins HA, NA, M2 and M1. Influenza type B has quite a few similarities to type A, but encodes proteins differently in the NB
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Influenza B viruses have similar viral structures, genome organization, and epidemiology as influenza A viruses. However, there are many important differences. Influenza B mainly infects humans, whilst influenza A infects many species of vertebrates. Additionally, influenza B viruses are usually less prevalent and less severe than influenza A viruses, and they exhibit lower rates of evolutionary change. Influenza B strains are separated into two distinct lineages, whereas influenza A strains continually
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(Wells, The 11 most toxic vaccine ingredients and their side effects., 2012b) Scott A. Goodman EN1320-E4 01-12-2013 Thesis Professor L. Hansen Scott A. Goodman EN1320-E4 01-12-2013 Thesis Professor L. Hansen The Following will include my homework for Chapters 7.3 and 7.5 from our student textbooks. The Following will include my homework for Chapters 7.3 and 7.5 from our student textbooks. 2012 2012 Class Project: Thesis Class Project: Thesis The following will
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A study of the Influenza Disease and its effects on the human bodyTrent BurrChesterfield High School Influenza Disease2The influenza is a deadly virus that you can get for being in the cold weather, for being in the night air in the winter time, being outside in the rain, getting out the shower with a wet head and going in the cold air, and many other things about it. Definition for infectious disease is disorders caused by organisms, such as bacteria, viruses, fungi or parasites. The introduction
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March 2017 The Influenza Epidemic of 1919: America’s Determined Fight to Contain, Prevent, and Cure In 1919, more soldiers died from a fatal flu than the number of soldiers who had died in World War I (MacFarlan). After World War I, from 1919 to 1920, a life-threatening flu spread around the United States of America. As the Influenza of 1919 spread across the United States, American people worked hard to contain the flu. Some of these actions to stop of the growth of the influenza were successful
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Seasonal Influenza Each year thousands of people in the United States are diagnosed with the influenza virus. The word “influenza” originates from the Italian word “influential” because people used to believe that the influence of the planets, stars, and moon caused the flu, that only the universal influence could explain such rapid and widespread sickness. The English adopted the word “influenza” in the mid-eighteenth century. It is known as the flu. Seasonal influenza is an acute viral infection
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Christopher Columbus and the Holocaust, others might say the Columbine Massacre and the several school shootings that followed that. But the most eerie and coincidental reoccurrence is the Spanish Influenza Epidemic of 1918 and the H1N1 ‘Swine Flu’ outbreak. By the fall of 1918 a strain of influenza seemingly no different from that of previous years suddenly turned so deadly, and engendered such a state of panic and chaos in communities across the globe, that many people believed the world was
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Describe the Disease Process of Influenza This paper will describe how one can use creditable sources of information to explore the disease process of Influenza. The paper will explore the elderly population in Minnesota and how influenza effect for this age group, address the change of incidence between 2015 and 2012, and compare the rate of incidence between Minnesota and United States. Among the population in Minnesota what was the incident rate of influenza for those who had be vaccinated
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Bird Flu (H5N1) This articles discusses Bird Flu (H5N1). It talks about a lot of information from the causes, symptoms, exams and tests to detect it, the treatments and also the outlook or prognosis. The first human case was reported in Hong Kong in 1997 and was transmitted through chickens. This means that the virus was able to pass the barrier and mutate between animal and man. Since then there has been hundreds of cases and the mortality rate is approximetely 50%. Your risk of contracting
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HCS/457 February 14, 2011 Lindsay Cogan Communicable Disease Influenza is a communicable disease or a respiratory illness that affects millions of people during the winter season. Most physicians believe that influenza is spread by droplets when people sneeze, cough, and talk without covering their mouth. The droplets usually land directly on an individual, or on surfaces, and even food. The symptoms of the influenza includes fever, cough, sore throat, muscle or body aches, fatigue, runny
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