Swine Flu Personal Statement

Influenza is a highly contagious viral infection of the respiratory passages causing fever and severe aching. The flu is a virus you do not want to have. I especially didn’t want the flu, The Christmas I got it.

For the past ten years, we at Virginia Mason Medical Center have been implementing mandatory influenza vaccination. This is due to the flu vaccination being able to reduce flu illnesses and prevent flu-related hospitalizations. According to the Center for Control and Disease (CDC, 2014) during 2012-2013, an estimated 45% of the U.S population got vaccinated, helping to prevent an estimated 6.6 million flu-related illness, with 3.2 million flu-related medical visits, almost 80,000 hospitalizations and roughly $87 billion dollars in total economic burden. Influenza is extremely contagious and each year on an average 5%-20% of the U.S population get the flu with tens of thousands die from a flu-related illness. Therefore, many health cares setting along with Virginia Mason Medical Center is mandating all their healthcare workers to get the influenza vaccination. Consequently, making annual influenza vaccination requirement for healthcare workers a continuing and debatable health topic. The potential of getting the vaccination have great benefits to healthcare professionals, their patients, and their families by

“Don’t tell me you’re getting sick too.” Daniel Rankin said to his friend, classmate, and ex-girlfriend Zoe Amba as she coughed while loading her bag into his brother’s truck. It was an oddly empty day at school that day, as most of the kids were sick; their numbers dwindled each minute as another student would enter the health office where Daniel’s brother was helping out.

Influenza strikes this country in pandemic proportions every year. Although there are many factors contributing to morbidity and mortality, the mortality rate varies from year to year. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in the thirty year range from 1976 to 2006, saw death rates from a low of 3000 to a high of 49000 (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2016). So far this season, there have been 3697 deaths from influenza related illness (CDC, 2016). In 2009, the virulent H1N1 strain, with a 20% risk of death, also brought the difficulties of lack of research based clinical evidence for treatments (Cook, et al., 2010). The lack of research conducted during pandemics stems from the delay caused by the often

The Influenza virus first came to knowledge in the 18th centre with influenza being derived from the word influence (Collins English Dictionary, 2014). Modern influenza has developed many strains over the last century with the most recent strand being H1N1. (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious diseases, 2011). In relation to New Zealand the worst outbreak of flu was 1918 killing around 8,600 in total. Since the development of modern medicines and higher sanitary conditions in hospitals; the flu has not been a major killer but it is still relevant in society.

In the human body, there are commensal bacteria serving as part of the normal flora. Various viruses can interact with these bacteria in order promote their infectivity. Poliovirus can bind with bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS) for stabilization to prevent premature RNA release and improve cell attachment to host cell through the poliovirus receptor. For retroviruses, specifically MMTV (mouse mammary tumor virus), binding to LPS improve their chances of successful transmission. MMTV-bound LPS get binds to toll-like receptor 4, which is a pattern recognition receptor of LPS. This event eventually leads to the induction of interleukin-10 (IL-10), which is an immune response inhibitory cytokine. By producing IL-10, it allows MMTV to go undetected by the

For those who participate in college athletics or keep to a strict workout schedule, exercise seems like a given aspect of life at Furman. The Physical Activities Center circulates students and others from the community throughout the entire day. Wellness workout classes instruct students how to use machines and create workout regimens. These are marks of a healthy lifestyle, and you may notice that your friends and roommates who workout tend to get sick less often. Maybe they always beat the common cold, or maybe they avoid flu season entirely. Exercise has been linked to health benefits and has proven to help the immune system fight off infections. Not only will working out make your everyday life less stressful, it will fill up your schedule, make you more social, and overall improve your well being in how you look and feel.

A lot of critical factors drive an influenza pandemic stockpiling. The costs for having influenza pandemic stockpile of drugs is relatively lesser when equated with the amount of chaos and disaster it will be created to humankind worldwide.

An initial public health plan addresses multi-level and multi-dimensional concerns. A public health plan to reduce epidemic incidence of influenza is aimed to reduce morbidity and mortality, provide continuity of operations and position the state for recovery if attacked by a novel influenza virus that causes large numbers of illnesses and deaths throughout New Jersey (NJ) (NJDHSS, 2008). In consideration such a plan necessitates establishing a target population and develop an appropriate protocol. Immunocompetent and immune-compromised individuals are significantly at risk along with infants, children, and geriatric population, all requiring specific attention.

It is a severe influenza (flu) season and the number of patients arriving with the flu are high. What are five steps for preventing the flu from spreading to “healthy” patients in the waiting room? How will you ask MA, ensure you don’t get sick from the patients? Is having a flu policy for patients a good idea?

In my Duke Tip camp, I learned what a virus is, how it looks, how it spreads, and how we prevent it. Mainly, I learned about a specific virus: the influenza virus, also called the flu. For example, the Spanish flu in 1918 was an H1N1 virus, just like the swine flu in 2009. The students in my class understood that airports and planes are one of the main causes of a pandemic. Pandemics occur when viruses destroy humans worldwide. Highly populated viruses in countries, states, regions, and cities are classified as epidemics. Most epidemics form into pandemics. You can stop airborne viruses by sneezing into your elbow and then immediately washing it. With this knowledge we, as students were given, I hope to shape my future.The Influenza virus,

Hope it’s not the flu. Taking to Kate Fine and found her whole family was sick this weekend with all the flu-like symptoms. Okay, now back to business the Attachment G is approved and CGE is up. Thus, I talked to Helena and she will check with Angie on approval to see what else is needed to finish this trip. Helena and I will keep you in the

My interest in Infectious disease began even before entering residency half way across the world in the unique country of Nepal. Nepal is rich in natural beauty with breath taking landscapes, diverse culture but is also one of the most impoverished. I had the privilege to witness first hand how the dedicated physicians living there do the most with less in one of the most remotest parts of Nepal. Majority of the cases were infectious in nature with differentials including organisms not as prevalent in the US: tuberculosis, typhoid, dengue, malaria, brucellosis and leptospirosis to name a few. What the physicians lacked in resources, they made up their close attention to detail in both the history and the thoroughness of their physical exam. My interest further developed during my residency years where I had the pleasure of working with seasoned infectious disease attendings and was exposed to an array of pathology… even seeing a handful of extremely rare

An individual can learn how to work with people. Learning the best time to induce a bacteria sample.There was hardship in understanding the data the CFU produced.

Influenza is a highly contagious disease which can spread across the population by the body secretions which contain the active influenza virus (10). It poses serious threats to the society as it promotes fear, anxiety, discrimination, and cause destruction on the normal function of the society (5). Until people develop immunity against the influenza virus (10), an influenza pandemic will remain a global emergency as extremely high number of people all over the world will require care at the same time (3). Since the global impact of pandemic varies across history, any expectation or prediction regarding the magnitude and impact of a new influenza pandemic will often be overestimated or underestimated (5, 6, 7, 11). The sudden and dramatic increase in demands upon the health system during a pandemic would challenge the already stretched healthcare system capacity, which emphasise the need for the government to develop and implement an influenza response (1, 7), in which will often cause confliction between the individual and community interests (7). Hence the collaboration of all levels of government, private and voluntary sectors, and the general public is very important (3, 7).This essay will discuss the approaches which the government can adopt in order to allocate the limited resources as well as the strategies which it can adopt to reduce the spread of virus for as long as possible.