Common Symptoms of Avian Influenza
The flu, also known as influenza, is a highly contagious viral disease of the airways. Although the flu affects both sexes and all age groups, children tend to get it more often than adults. This is a seasonal disease, occurring between November and April, occurring mostly between late December and early March.
What are the symptoms of flu?
The flu is often confused with the common cold, but flu symptoms tend to develop quickly (usually between 1 and 4 days after the person is exposed to the flu virus) and are generally stronger than the typical sneezing and stuffy nose catarrh own.
Symptoms of flu may include:
* fever
* chills
* headache
* muscle aches
* dizziness
* loss of appetite
* fatigue
* cough
* sore throat
* runny nose
* nausea or vomiting
* weakness
* ear infection
* diarrhea
When a baby gets the flu, may give the impression that suddenly seems to be wrong or “do not look well.”
How long does the flu?
After 5 days, fever and other symptoms usually disappear, but may persist cough and weakness. All symptoms usually disappear within a week or two. Anyway, it’s important you take the flu seriously because it can develop into pneumonia and other complications that may endanger life, especially when it affects infants, elderly and people with chronic health problems.
Is it contagious?
The flu is contagious, it can spread through virus-infected droplets that are expelled by coughing or sneezing. People with flu are contagious while symptoms (most of the time the symptoms last about one week for adults, but children can last up to two weeks).
The flu usually occurs in small outbreaks, but epidemics occur periodically. Influenza epidemics (when the disease spreads very quickly and affects many people in the same area at the same time) usually occur during the 2 or 3 weeks following the onset of the first cases, but then begins to decrease cases .
