worse in their backs and legs. It can be difficult to distinguish between the common cold and influenza in the early stages of these infections‚ but a flu can be identified by a high fever with a sudden onset and extreme fatigue. Influenza is a mixture of symptoms of common cold and pneumonia‚ body ache‚ headache‚ and fatigue. Diarrhea is not normally a symptom of influenza in adults. Symptoms of influenza may include fever and extreme coldness chills shivering‚ shaking‚ cough nasal congestion‚ runny
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Influenza (Flu) is one more the more common disease in the US. Influenza has the potential to become a pandemic since there are different variations of the flu. There are four different types of the influenza virus (A‚ B‚ C‚ D). Influenza A and B viruses cause seasonal epidemics of disease almost every winter in the United States. The emergence of a new and very different influenza A virus to infect people can cause an influenza pandemic. Influenza type C infections generally
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Haemophilus influenza By Crystal Wade BL 202 A Dr. Kokan 11/10/2012 Haemophilus influenza is a gram negative rod shaped bacterium; it is a member of the pasteurellaceae family. It is aerobic but it can grow as a facultative anaerobe. From 1852 to 1933 H. influenza was thought to be the cause of influenza until its etiology was done and they discovered that it was really bacterial influenza that caused it. H. influenza does cause many other diseases. It states on Wikipedia that “H. influenza
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they were guilty for the cause of the plague‚ by poisoning wells at this same time. Muslim society at this time that might have associated the Black Death with an apocalypse‚ also the Muslim society were not held responsible for the ravages of the pandemic. Paths of the Black Death spread mostly through the Mediterranean sea. All in all the Plague was an unfortunate event that killed 25-45% of the populations if it wasn’t for the sanitation‚ rats‚ fleas‚ and hygiene the plague would have possibly been
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There had been several outbreaks of diseases throughout history such as Plague of Justinian (541-542)‚ Antonine Plague (165AD)‚ Third Cholera Pandemic (1852-1860)‚ etc. The Black Death had been one of the most castastrophic pandemics in human history. It resulted in the deaths of an estimated 75-200 million people in Eurasia between 1346 and 1353. The cause of this plague is believed to be the bacterium Yersinia pestis. The Black Plague changed the world by creating a series of religious‚ social
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What better time than in the mid-fourteenth century Europe for a pandemic to strike. Populations in European cities were at the highest they had ever been‚ which often meant many individuals living within the same cramped residence. In recent years‚ grain had also become scarce due several consecutive bad crops years‚ resulting a decline of livestock‚ and a rise in famine. This situation‚ coupled with the present society’s minimal knowledge on germ contamination and basic hygiene created the ideal
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Virus: lifeless particle that does not carry out any METABOLIC functions on its own and CANNOT REPRODUCE on its own until it invades a living HOST cell Viral history: Viral history is relatively short. It begins with the isolation of the human influenza virus in the 1930s and crystallization of the tobacco mosaic virus in 1933‚ and moves through the identification of HIV as the cause of AIDS in 1983 and the mapping of the structure of the comm on cold virus in1985. It continues today with the
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the deaths of 75 to 200 million deaths‚ almost a third of the population. The black plague is also known as the black death because‚ of the dark patches on the skin caused by subcutaneous bleeding. The black plague was one of the most devastating pandemics in human history. A deadly epidemic known as the Sixth-Century Plague or Justinian’s plague struck Constantinople and parts of southern Europe 800 years earlier. The Black Death returned several times throughout the rest of the century. (mid 14 century)
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war‚ famine‚ and scandal in the church. Furthermore‚ malnutrition‚ poverty‚ disease‚ growing inflation and other economic crises made Europe ripe for a tragedy in the likes of the Bubonic Plague. The Bubonic Plague was one of the most devastating pandemics in human history. It ravaged Europe between 1347 and 1350 before it continued on to Russia‚ leaving 30-95 percent of the entire population dead. The Bubonic Plague killed indiscriminately. No one was spared. The young and the old‚ the rich and the
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Christine Allen April 22‚ 2014 Period: 1st Plaque Pandemics In 1600-1450‚ Western Europe and South Asia both experienced plague pandemics. The plague had both similarities and differences in the impact as far as exposure‚ social transformation and direct influences. The impact of plague epidemic was similar and different in Western Europe and South Asia as far as exposure. On similarity that exists between the regions Western Europe and South Asia is they both experienced the Black Death
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