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Influenza

By myrkav

  • Fort Riley

    An army private reports to the camp hospital before breakfast for a fever, headache, and a sore throat. Then after that more and more soldiers are coming in with the same complains. By noon that day the hospital had dealt with more than 100 sick soldiers.

  • The Spanish Flu

    Public health officials in Philadelphia issue a bulletin about the so-called Spanish influenza.It was a pandemic that killed about 50 million people worldwide.There are more deaths from this epidemic than WWI. It quickly created respiratory problems, and pneumonia, killing many healthy young men and women. Scientists say that the virus crossed from birds to humans. It is the epidemic that killed millions of people, and there isn't a pandemic that killed that much people.

  • Discovery of the influenza virus

    Christopher Andrews, Wilson Smith, and Patrick Laidlaw made this discovery of the Influenza virus. There are 3 types of viruses, Type A,B, and C. Type A causes pandemics or worldwide epidemics. It infects humans, animals and birds. Type B affects mammals, but it is less severe than type A. Finally, type C also affects only mammals, but it causes disease rarely.

  • Pig Influenza

    It's a respiratory disease of pigs caused by a type A influenza virus. The swine virus is also responsible for many pandemics. The swine aka pig influenza is a type of virus that usually infects pigs, as stated by the name. However, there is a new strand of virus that affects humans too. This influenza is known to be a Type A influenza and it's not airborne.

  • Avian Flu

    There have been 11 outbreaks of the Avian flu in 2 countries (China, Egypt, Indonesia, Pakistan and Vietnam) and many people died. Avian flu aka bird flu is a raging problem in asian countries. It is a virus that infects birds to make them ill. It also infects people, if humans come in contact with infected birds.

  • Influenza impact on today's society

    The reported cases in the US began appearing in late March, in California, then spread to infect people in Texas, New York, and assorted other states by April. This spread continued across the country's population and by the end of May had infected citizens in all 50 states. The CDC reported an estimated 50 million Americans had been infected with the virus and 10,000 American had died, by which time the vaccine was beginning to be widely distributed to the general public by several states.