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    Type A Influenza Virus Essay Influenza: a virus that replicates‚ mutates‚ spreads among species‚ and the cause of the recent H1N1 scare is definitely an apparent danger to humans today. Type A influenza is an RNA virus that ‘reproduces’ through replication. The virus particles are surrounded by hemagglutinin (HA) and neuraminidase (NA) – both are structural glycoproteins attached to the virus’s outside lipid bi-layer. HA serves its function in helping the virus to bind to the sialic acid receptors

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    H5N1 stands for avian Influenza‚ a kind of pandemics. Birds and poultry can get affected and transmit it to each other. Then it would infect human who attached to them and cause problem to their respiratory tract. Symptoms of avian influenza are cough‚ headache‚ nausea‚ diarrhea and even pneumonia or encephalitis. 60% of infected people died and most of them are the young adults between 10 to 19 and the old. It used to cause a huge problem for most of the countries in Asia. The essay is about the

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    efficient use of resources‚ prevent health problems from worsening‚ and improve patient outcomes. If epidemics are identified and contained early‚ they can be prevented from spreading widely and killing many people. The rapid response to the COVID-19 pandemic‚ which included widespread testing‚ quarantines‚ travel bans and social distancing (Tabari‚ 2020). This essentially allowed some countries to suppress the virus better than others‚ depending on their timing and method of response. Early detection

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    As the use of illegal drugs and alcohol continues‚ substance abuse across America has become a very serious social problem. It is mental illness that has an effect on different races‚ classes and genders. The affects of substance abuse has caused countless of people to feel heartache and develop feelings of hopelessness. With alcohol and drugs readily available through prescription or on the streets (Butler‚2010)‚ it is obvious why many are acquiring addictive patterns to these accessible substances

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    Discuss the Possibility of Global Pandemic in Modern Times When we are talking of the possibility of a global pandemic it is not so hard to imagine as it is a current reality‚ the risk and rate of infection seems to be steadily on the increase. A pandemic is a worldwide epidemic that‚ according to the World Health Organisation‚ (WHO) has to meet three conditions; the infectious microbe infects and causes serious illness to humans and humans don’t have immunity against the Virus. This virus can also

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    aboriginal communities face a lot of health pandemics‚ have poor infrastructure and sanitation facilities and do not receive enough federal funding . Firstly‚ Health pandemics have a greater impact on Aboriginal communities than on non-aboriginal regions.According to statistics‚“Aboriginal peoples constitute only 3.8% of the Canadian population‚ from April 2009 to April 2010‚ [but] accounted for 7.4-10% of hospitalizations due to the 2009 H1N1 pandemic(Boggild et al 2011)” because of “poor living

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    In the Name of God Biotechnology MSc. Seminar: Current issues in production of Shikimic Acid‚ intermediate for the production of Oseltamivir‚ the Avian Flu drug Supervised by: Dr. Reza Yegani Dr. Mohammad Hossein Sarrafzadeh Mr. Habibollah Ramezanzade by: Kaveh Yazdifard Presented on: 1385/10/3 Contents Acknowledgement Introduction Shikimic Acid & its Natural Properties Derivatives of Shikimic Acid Avian Flu Sickness‚ Medications Oseltamivir and Shikimic Acid’s Role

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    reports approximately one in three people or 36% (97.9 million) people in the United States are at risk for being infected with influenza. Historically the mortality and morbidity rate of influenza has been low with the exception of the influenza pandemic in 2009. (CDC‚

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    Allergy and Infectious Diseases stated that the “seasonal influenza sickens millions and cause thousands of hospitalizations and flu-related deaths” each year (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases). Influenza started in 1918. The pandemic flu from 1918 was so deadly that “in many of the victims‚ the influenza virus has invaded their lungs and caused pneumonia” (History). The flu “was first observed in Europe‚ the U.S. and parts of Asia before swiftly spreading around the world” (History)

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    research may be beneficial for finding vaccines and antiviral drugs to combat the virus. There is one point on which the factions agree: The ability of a virus to spread easily from person to person is the key to determining whether it can cause a pandemic (McNeil & Grady‚ 2012). The main risk factor for catching bird flu is working at a chicken farm or a live bird market (McNeil & Grady‚ 2012). According to McNeil & Grady‚ (2012)‚ “The rare cases of apparent human-to-human transmission

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