Transcript Influenza

By: Cole and Kanyon Tapp
• The symptoms for influenza are more severe and
occur faster than most. If you have influenza the
symptoms usually occur all at once and not just a
single symptom (Decoded Science, 2013).
• Some of the symptoms are:
• Fever
• Headache
• Sore Throat
• Fatigue
• Achy Muscles
• Influenza is transmitted in three ways:
1. By direct contact with infected individual.
2. By contact with contaminated objects.
3. By inhaling the viral-laden aerosols (virology,
2009).
• Low Prevalence: below 5 % of the people
are affected
• Moderate Prevalence: around 20% of
people are affected (CDC, 2013).
• High Prevalence: around 40% of people
are affected.
• The biggest prevention is getting a
vaccine for it, which also isn’t 100%
effective (Mayo Clinic, 2013).
• Little things to help prevent:
• Washing your hands
•Containing your coughs and sneezing
• Avoid big crowds
• Treatments can range in taking many
medicines to just doing therapy.
• Some treatments may target the virus
itself or instead just relieve the
symptoms.
• The average cost that influenza has on United
states is usually over $35,000,000 and that is
excluding distributions to commerce and society.
• Each vaccine averages around $60 and %60
percent of the United States citizens get the
vaccine.
• Influenza accounts for around 10% of
sickness-related absences from work
around the world.
• It is contagious, so you can’t do your
normal daily activities that involve being
around people.
• Hemagglutinin Spike- It is responsible for
binding the virus to the cell
• Neurominidase Spike- it enables the virus to be
released from the host cell.
• Caspid Layer- it helps viruses enter through the
cell.
• Virology. (29 April 2009). Transmission: influenza. [accessed 11 March
2013]. Retrieved from: https://www.virology.us/2009/04/29/influenzavirus-transmission
• Decoded Science. (29 January 2013). Symptoms: influenza. [accessed 11
March 2013]. Retrieved from: http://www.decodedscience.com/flusymptoms-2013-when-you-get-sick/24967
• CDC. (3 January 2013). Prevalence: influenza. [accessed 11 March 2013].
Retrieved from: http://cdc.gov/flu/professionals/diagnosis/rapidlab.htm
• Mayo Clinic. (21 February 2013). Prevention: influenza. [accessed 11 March
2013]. Retrieved from:
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/influenza/0500081/dsection=prevention