http://www.who.int/topics/influenza/en/ the World Health Organization. Very credible. Last updated this year.1. Influenza is a viral disease that effects the nose, throat, bronchi and occasionally the lungs.
2. Symptoms include a sudden onset of high fever, aching muscles, headache and severe malaise, a non-poductive cough, sore throat and rhintis.
3. The virus is very easily transmittable by droplets and small particles produced when infected people cough or sneeze.
4. For a normal person, the infection lasts for a week and is defeated. For older people and younger, it can cause complications of pneumonia and even death.
5. Avian influenza, commonly called bird fl, is an ifections disease of birds. Most bird flu viruses do not effect humans in any way. But a certian type named H5N1 has caused serious infections in people.
6. What scares people most about the bird flu is how it effects poultry populations. This causes potential for the virus to cause disease in people after eating the birds.
7. H5N1 made a widespread emergence in 2003 and 2004, the avian virus has spread from Asia to Europe and Africa and has become entrenched in poultry in some countries, resulting in millions of poutlry infections.
8. The poultry infections could pose a threat by reducing food count for underdeveloped countries.
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ReplyDeleteYour post made me want to learn more about influenza, because i know that it was a major epidemic & a lot of people were affected with it .
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