The last flu pandemic was a 'quiet killer.' Why we can't.
The Scarlet Plague, originally published by Jack London in 1912, was one of the first examples of a postapocalyptic fiction novel in modern literature ().Set in a ravaged and wild America, the story takes place in 2073, sixty years after the spread of the Red Death, an uncontrollable epidemic that depopulated and nearly destroyed the world in 2013.
Avian Influenza or Bird Flu: Avian influenza is an infectious disease of birds caused by the A(H5N1) virus. Concern about H5N1 is that it could change to be able to pass from person-to-person and cause a pandemic. For more information see the Avian Influenza pages.
Influenza, acute viral infection of the upper or lower respiratory tract, marked by fever, chills, and a generalized feeling of malaise. Influenza is caused by viruses in the family Orthomyxoviridae. Learn more about the classification of influenza viruses, influenza outbreaks, and influenza symptoms and treatment.
H1N1 is related to dominant influenza virus that had affected people from different parts of the world. Though the World Health Organization or WHO had in the year 2009 declared to end the serious problem associated with H1N1. The spread of the problem has been on an increase due to unawareness.
Swine influenza virus is a virus that is common in pigs.This type of influenza virus can also infect humans and birds. Swine influenza virus is sometimes called SIV or swine flu. Swine flu is common in pigs. Normally, it only infects people who have been in close contact with pigs.
A key focus of NIAID’s influenza research program is developing a universal flu vaccine, or a vaccine that provides robust, long-lasting protection against multiple subtypes of flu, rather than a select few. Such a vaccine would eliminate the need to update and administer the seasonal flu vaccine each year and could provide protection against newly emerging flu strains, potentially including.
The map tracks the lethal flu-like infection, which has killed more than 1,300 people and infected 60,000 - mostly in China - and pits it against SARS in 2003, swine flu in 2009 and Ebola in 2014.