Flu

Question 1

What causes the flu?

Answer 1

Influenza virus
- type A
-Type b
-Type c

Question 2

Who gets it? how does it spread ?

Answer 2

Anyone who comes in contact with the virus, people with preexposed conditions are at higher risk
- respiratory droplets or from touching a surface that has the virus on it
- flu enters the upper respiratory tract

Question 3

What are the symptoms

Answer 3

Fever, headache, molase, chills, nasal congestion

Question 4

How do we identify/diagnose it?

Answer 4

Typically most doctors can tell from the symptoms and if they run a covid test and it is negative then they know in severe cases they are able to run a rapid test that test for covid

Question 5

How do we treat it?

Answer 5

Palliative care, tamaflu for severe cases

Question 6

How do we prevent it

Answer 6

Trivalent vaccine which has three vaccines in one
Washing hands, washing surfaces, wearing mask

Question 7

3 historical facts

Answer 7

-30x drop in flu cases from march 2020-late 2022
-genetic drift causes the flu to not be effective
- antigenic shift are responsible for new varieties of flu
- spanish flu came back as the swine flu in 2009

Question 8

What is the patio-hydrology of the virus

Answer 8

Has H and N surface protein that attach to the cell and gets into the membrane once inside internalization and uncoating takes place then the replication of the viral RNA and then synthesis and lastly a budding virion is released