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What is Seasonal influenza (flu)?

• Illness caused by the influenza virus

• Extremely contagious and spreads quickly to others.

• Symptoms vary from person to person

• Occurs every year, usually in the fall and winter


killing 36,000 people in U.S.
DANGER OF INFECTION

Infectious (Shedding Virus)

Incubation Symptomatic (Sick) Recovering

Work, etc. Work/Home/Hospital Back to work, etc


Day 0 Day 2 Day 4 Day 11 Day 15
Seeking Medical Treatment for the Flu

• Persistent fever

• Productive cough

• Increasing difficulty breathing

• Improvement, followed by relapse


Prevention
Here are Some Things You can Do

• Yearly vaccinations

• Wash your hands regularly

• Avoid touching eyes, nose and


mouth
Protects Protects
Yourself • Avoid close contact with sick Others
people

• Stay at home when sick

• Cover your cough


Avian (Bird) Flu

• What is it?
• An infection occurring naturally
among birds (example: HSN1)

• Wild birds are natural carriers-


Sometimes without illness
• Can infect domesticated birds- often
resulting in illness, culling, and death.

• Humans can become infected. Most


cases due to close contact.
Will H5N1 become the next pandemic?

If not H5N1,then another


• Avian Flu not yet Pandemic Flu
• current outbreaks of H5N1 Avian Flu in Plan now!
poultry and birds are the largest ever
Practice Prevention NOW!
documented
• Issue of concern- some cases of H5N1 virus in
other kinds of animals, such as pigs and tigers
• Some human cases of contraction

• Impossible to predict next pandemic flu


event
H7N1- 89 people in the Netherlands, most
of whom were poultry workers, became
infected with eye infections or flu-like
symptoms. A veterinarian who visited one
Pandemic of the affected poultry farms died.
Appearance of a new Appearance
Asian Flu- H2N2-
First identified in influenza strain in humans- of a new influenza H9N2- Caused illness in one child in Hong
China- Caused roughly Russian Flu-H1N1 strain in humans- H9N2 Kong
70,000 deaths in the U.S.

Appearance of a new H5N1- caused illness in


Pandemic Pandemic influenza strain in 47 people in Thailand and
Spanish Flu- H1N1- Hong Kong Flu- H3N2- humans-H5N1 Appearance of Vietnam, 34 of whom died
The most devastating First detected in Hong a new influenza
flu pandemic in recent Kong, this virus caused H7N3- is reported for the
History, killing 40 to strain in humans- first time in humans. The
roughly 34,000 deaths in
80 million world wide the U.S. H7N2- Evidence of strain caused illness in two
infection in one poultry workers in Canada .
person following a
poultry outbreak in
Virginia H10N7- is reported for the
first time in humans. It caused illness
in two infants
in Egypt. One child’s father is
a poultry merchant.

**Seasonal Influenza results in 36,000 deaths in the U.S. every year


Three Pandemics

• 1968-Hong Kong Flu


• Caused 34,000 deaths in the
United States

• 1957-Asian Flu
• 70,000 deaths in the United States

• 1918-Spanish Flu
• Over 600,000 deaths in the United
States. Up to 100 million world
wide
Tent Hospitals-1918
More History about Spanish Flu of 1918

• 8-10% of all young adults may have


been killed.

• From September 1918-December


1918-Killed more people than the Black
Death in the Middle Ages killed in 100
years

• Killed more people in 24 weeks than


AIDS has killed in 24 years
Compare 2008 to 1918

• 2008
• Modern travel
• Many areas more densely populated
• Population exceeds 6 billion

• 1918
• World War I (civilian and military
overcrowding)
• Public information withheld
• Population approximately 1.8 billion
Lessons from Past Pandemics

• Occurs unpredictably, not always in winter

• Variations in:
• Case fatality rates (number of people diagnosed with
a disease that die from that disease)
• Severity of illness
• Pattern of illness (ages most severely affected)

• Rapid surge in number of cases over brief


period of time

• Tend to occur in waves- May only be one wave

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