Influenza Research Paper

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Influenza can be a mild sickness and can be the complete opposite. Influenza is a very serious issue and targets a lot of individuals, especially young children and elderly . (1) In 2009 nearly 3,000 people died from the influenza , In even more cases, influenza is a contributor to death even if it is not the main case. This means influenza can cause problems with parts in your body and might affect you later on.

The flu has symptoms like every other sickness does.These are some of the common symptoms . (2)The common symptoms are body aches,fever,cough,runny nose,chills,and fatigue.Symptoms are like a “side effect” that applies when you are sick , have a disease or take medicine that you may react to in a weird way. Symptoms make you feel miserable and if they get too bad then you might get severe influenza or perhaps die from influenza.

The flu is very contagious and can be easy to make a epidemic and then can possibly form a pandemic. (3)The flu can disperse to one other person or more by a cough or a sneeze. Then it soonly spreads to other people and could perhaps kill persons or make them very sickly.(3)People with the flu can disperse it to others up to about 6 feet away. (3) According to most specialists the influenza viruses are spread largely by droplets made when people with influenza cough, sneeze or talk. Make sure
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If you get a strong virus your cells try to kill the virus. (4) A lot of cells are killed in that process and it makes you more sick than if you had the normal amount of cells in your body. If you get a more weaker virus you would lose only a little amount of cells and wouldn't be as sick as you would have been if you had a strong virus. Make sure your immune system (cells and etc) is healthy so your chance of getting more sick is less