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How is Flu Spreading?
How is flu spreading?
Influenza is a viral disease that passes from one person to another through the air. The disease infects the nose, throat or lungs. Often as an epidemic spreads rapidly affecting many people, from city to city and from country to country. Typically, epidemics are usually established during the autumn and winter, with one or two peaks of incidence between means usually.
Are there different types of flu?
Yes, there are three types of flu, according to the type of influenza virus: A, B and C.
type A
The most severe, with more acute symptoms. It is also the most common, appearing in cycles, every two or three years. Read the rest of this entry »
Cold or allergy?, How they differ
It is very common during this time of year the flu symptoms such as nasal congestion, headache, cough and runny nose. But before self-medication, be sure that what is really suffering flu and allergy.
While colds are caused by hundreds of different viruses and are contagious, allergies are immune responses to substances called allergens in the environment.
Both have common symptoms and is very easy to confuse each other. The difference is in the details.
Both colds and allergies cause nasal congestion, runny and sneezing. However, these symptoms are more persistent allergies, as they are reported duration of exposure to the allergen that causes, when it’s flu last between two and 14 days.
In addition, allergy symptoms may appear immediately after exposure to the allergen. The influenza are remarkable few days after infection with the virus.
The flu symptoms may include malaise, fatigue and fever, the fever never cause allergies.
Treatment
A good decongestant combat the symptoms of both conditions, whereas allergies must also be treated with an antihistamine to combat histamines.
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Malaria
Malaria is a parasitic disease that is transmitted from human to human by the bite of infected Anopheles mosquitoes. In humans, the parasites (called sporozoites) migrate to the liver where they mature and become merozoites, which enter the bloodstream and infect red blood cells.
The parasites multiply within red corpuscles, after 48 to 72 hours, break and infect more red blood cells. The first symptoms usually occur 10 days to 4 weeks after infection, although they may appear as early as 8 days or up to 1 year thereafter. Then, symptoms of the disease occur in cycles of 48 to 72 hours.
Most symptoms are caused by the massive release of merozoites into the bloodstream, the anemia resulting from destruction of red blood cells and the problems caused by large amounts of free hemoglobin released into the circulation after the breakdown of red blood cells .
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