The Influenza Virus & Vaccine Efficacy Amy Snyder Bryant & Stratton College Microbiology Shane Wesener 6 November 2014 Abstract: Why is the flu vaccine so controversial? There always seems to be two strong, opposing sides in terms of its efficacy or safety, separated by innumerable studies that range from black and white, to grey area conclusions. Worldwide, the influenza virus is often associated with serious health events, and immunizations are considered a key component in
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Communicable Diseases: Influenza Jena M. Gilbert Grand Canyon University: NRS-427V February 10, 2016 Communicable Diseases: Influenza This paper will discuss the communicable disease process of Influenza or otherwise known as Flu in common terms. Herein will discuss what Influenza is, in what ways Influenza effects the infected and what we as heath care workers can do when dealing with this virus. Influenza otherwise known as the flu is a respiratory illness, contrary to the misconception
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Influenza Influenza is a virus capable of causing significant human disease which attacks the respiratory system. “Although the infection generally is limited to the lung, some strains of influenza can spread to other sites in certain people” (Murray, Rosenthal, & Pfaller, 2013, p. 530). According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2013), people with flu can spread it to others up to about 6 feet away. There are three types of influenza virus; influenza A, B, and C. The type A viruses
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Influenza July 20, 2014 Introduction Influenza also known as “Flu” is a contagious disease that affects mammals and birds. It is a viral disease that is caused by influenza viruses of the family orthomyxoviridae, which affects the lungs, throat, nose and other parts of the respiratory system. Most people tend to confuse influenza with common cold, stomach flu and other flu like illnesses, but influenza is a viral and deadly disease that is characterized with muscle pains, headache, runny
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Disease Avian influenza is used to describe influenza A subtypes that primarily affect chickens, turkeys, quail, geese. Avian influenza is an ecological classification. Outbreaks of influenza have been recognized in poultry (chickens and turkeys) for many years. Avian influenza strains are classified according to disease severity recognized forms: highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), also known as fowl plague, and low-pathogenic avian influenza (LPAI). Avian influenza viruses that cause
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Pandemic Influenza: Prevention and Preparedness Now that, the flu season has already started, knowing your risk factors, prevention, and preparedness is really important to review. Influenza, commonly know as “the flu”, is a highly infectious respiratory disease caused by influenza A or B viruses. The illness appears most frequently from late fall to early spring and attacks the body by spreading through the respiratory tract. According to Flu.gov (2012), pandemic occurs when we have global disease
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Mayor of NY Michael R. Bloomberg to ensure the community that all those cases had been mild, and that city hospitals were not reporting an increase in severe lung infections caused by the virus (McNeil, Jr., 2010). Swine Flu in humans is called Influenza A H1N1 (Swine Flu). The swine flu virus is a respiratory illness found in pigs (swine). The A H1N1 is a virus that was believed to have derived from pigs and thereby was named Swine
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hospitalized or to ultimately die from influenza. Yearly worldwide flu epidemics can be as high as three to five million severe cases or illness and death rate as high as five hundred thousand. The influenza Virus is transmitted easily, and spreads quickly in large groups (schools, nursing homes, hospitals, and dorms) When a person with influenza sneezes or coughs the droplets (that contains the virus) are now airborn anyone who breathes this in can be infected. The influenza virus is easily spread, so those
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different, unusual and different. All of these meanings fit for the use of the word novel in this case (2009 H1N1 Flu, 1). The novel influenza virus that circulated in the U.S. and other parts of the world is a unique combination of swine and human influenza viruses. This virus is transmitted from person to person, not from pigs to humans (CDC website). The novel influenza A H1N1 spreads just like the seasonal flu. Flu viruses spread from a person sneezing or coughing who has contracted the virus. It
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or getting of the stomach flu. I I intend to obtain my material online resources such as the CDC website, Univ. of Michigan site and the Mayo clinic site. As this websites they great updates on current flu demographics and updates for approved flu vaccines and when to be vaccinated. Presenting my teaching to this targeted population, will be a good idea because I have known them almost all their lives and I have literally been a babysitter for almost all my friends and relative’s teens at some
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