April 2009 gets associated with the spread of a contagious form of influenza, the 2009 H1N1 pandemic which brought to book immense challenges to the US health state departments. Initially, several kinds of reports relating to an unknown type of strain which eventually got identified as the H1N1virus had already...
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Introduction There was a pandemic H1N1 'Swine Flu' virus in 2009 that had not previously been identified as a source of infections among people. The H1N1 virus originated in Mexico City in a little village called La Gloria in Veracruz. The sicknesses first appeared in Mexico City the next month, and...
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Whereas global interconnection and travel have been enormously beneficial, there are some drawbacks. One of the drawbacks has been the ease with which contagious diseases can be transported from one end of the globe to the other in record time. For example, many countries had a contagious influenza flu pandemic...
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The Ability of Microorganisms to Inhibit Microbial ActivityThe ability of these microorganisms to have properties that inhibit microbial activity is one of the obstacles to efficient treatment of bacterial infections. In particular, non-typeable Hemophilus Influenza (NTHI) has a biofilm that increases the pathogenicity, chronicity, and likelihood of recurrence of respiratory...
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Orthomyxoviridae Orthomyxoviridae is characterized by 18 HA subtypes, according to recent study.Influenza Season Infections caused by the H1N1 virus lead to between 250,000 and 500,000 fatalities globally. In the majority of influenza A virus outbreaks, viral RNA segments result in new strains that are vulnerable to human immunity. Such occurrences can be...
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The Columbian Exchange By concept, the Colombian exchange was a time of biological and cultural interactions that took place between the New and Old Worlds. In fact, trades between cattle, viruses, plants, and the native American way of life and technologies have changed European life have taken place. In addition, the...
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