INFLUENZA

What type of pathogen is it?
Influenza is a viral infection that attacks the respiratory system, throat, lungs, and nose. (Not to be confused with the common stomach flu that causes diarrhea and vomiting)

HOW DOES INFLUENZA SPREAD?

• Through droplets in the air (sneezing, coughing, etc)
• Through touching (highfives, kissing, etc)

What does influenza do to the body?
Fever or chills
Cough
Sore throat
Runny or stuffy nose
Muscle or body aches
Headaches
Fatigue (tiredness)

Where and when have there been outbreaks?
The last OUTBREAK of avian influenza was on December 28, 2014 in Guanzaugh city, Guangdong province China but like I said, influenza is a globally reoccurring epidemic.

What treatments or cures are there for influenza?
The only way to get rid of influenza is sleep and over the counter medicine.

INFLUENZA IS MORE DEADLY THAN YOU THINK

FUN FACT PART II!!!
Influenza was discovered not by a direct study of the disease in humans, but rather from studies on animal diseases. In 1918, J.S. Koen, a veterinarian, observed a disease in pigs which was believed to be the same disease as the now famous Spanish influenza pandemic of 1918.

WORK CITED

• http://www.who.int/csr/don/28-december-2014-avian-influenza/en/
• https://www.health.ny.gov/diseases/communicable/influenza/fact_sheet.htm
• http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/flu/basics/definition/con-200...

BY BEN STEPHENS