Influence
Introduction
Influence is disease caused by special virus type A or B or C and may cause infection to the upper
airways and lungs. People are infected by flu virus all the year but a cute
cases happened in Winter months. Some people may think flu virus is the same as
common cold, but they are completely different because it may causes serious
health condition and sometimes may causes death. The main causes of flu is
contamination witch infected people who are surrounding them, coughing and
sneezing speared the virus in the air.
Symptoms
There many symptoms of flu. The Queensland Government (2017)point out that flu symptoms could
appear in many ways:
1-Fever
2-Dry cough
3-Muscle and joint pain
4-Constant exhausted and tired
5-Headache
6-Nasal inflammation
7-Throat congestion
In some types of flu, fever may not appear as a sign of flu. It could be
only confusion, breath disturbance . flu usually affects children with more acute
symptoms for example, gastrointestinal
Transmission
There are two main ways to spread flu from person to another:
1-Cough and sneezing because virus could travel from one meter inform of
droplet
2-Infected droplets as a result of touching infected surface like
phones, doors and hands. Infection could happens from people who have the virus
in 24 hours before symptoms appear and it may infect people even with mild flu
illness and could transmit the virus widely.
Prevention
Vacation is the most powerful way to reduce infection of flu virus. It increase
the immunity system ability to respond to the virus. Vaccine may change every
year according to the strain of the virus and to the contraindication that may happened
after taking the vaccine.
Treatment
To help prevent flu , people should stay at home as long as the symptoms
and signs appear. A healthy food and, hot liquids and fresh airs could increase
the ability immunity system for defending the virus . also, antiviral
medication could be very active factor to reduce the inflammation of virus.
Conclusion
To sum up, flu is one of the most common virus all over the world. There
can be many symptoms like headache and dry cough with upper repertory system,
but sometimes fever could appear in some cases. The most common cause of flu is
contamination with infected people. Treatment involves healthy food, hot
liquids and antiviral. The most important way to prevent flu is vacation.
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