Influenza Symptoms
Influenza is a viral illness, which is highly contagious. It can occur in children and adults. It mostly occurs in winter when people tend to spend more time indoors being in close contact with each other. The virus is transmitted from one infected person to another through coughing and sneezing. It has been seen that young children pregnant women, older adults, and adults suffering from other health problems like asthma or malnutrition are more susceptible to influenza, and they can become seriously ill.More...
What Scientist Discovered Influenza ?
 Influenza is a contagious illness that is brought on by RNA viruses. Scientists still do not much information as to how the virulent strains of influenza viruses developed, but research is ongoing as more and more new strains of influenza viruses keep developing each year.More...
H1n1 Influenza Symptoms
 H1N1 influenza, also known as swine flu, is one of the worse flu pandemics in the recent years. Hundreds of people have died in Mexico, where the flu originated, and after that hundreds more have died in other parts of the worlds. Thousands of people have been infected by the disease.More...
Scientific Name For Swine Influenza
 In 2009, the World Health Organization (WHO) stopped using the term swine influenza or swine flu because it misrepresented the illness. The term associated the illness with pigs, which of course is not true. The WHO took this dramatic step after Egypt decided to cull thousands of pigs believing that the pigs were responsible for spreading the illness.More...
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