INTERESTING
FACTS Part
two
The
flu vaccine is necessary to take
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Influenza, commonly known as the flu, is an infectious disease caused by an influenza virus. Symptoms can be mild to severe. The most common symptoms include: high fever, runny nose, sore throat, muscle pains, headache, coughing, and feeling tired. These symptoms typically begin two days after exposure to the virus and most attacks last less than a week. The cough, however, may last for more than two weeks. In children, there may be diarrhea and vomiting, but these are not common in adults. Diarrhea and vomiting occur more commonly in gastroenteritis, which is an unrelated disease and sometimes inaccurately referred to as "stomach flu" or the "24-hour flu". Complications of influenza may include viral pneumonia, secondary bacterial pneumonia, sinus infections, and worsening of previous health problems such as asthma or heart failure’ If you have these symptoms, they could bring about your death.
There
are three of the four types of influenza viruses that affects humans, They are Type
A, Type B, and Type C. Type D has not been known to infect humans, but is
believed to have the potential to do so. Usually, the virus is spread through the air from coughs or sneezes. This
is believed to occur mostly over relatively short distances. It can also
be spread by touching surfaces contaminated by the virus and then touching the
mouth or eyes. A person may be infectious to others both
before and during the time they are showing symptoms. The infection may be
confirmed by testing the throat, sputum, or nose for the virus. A number
of rapid
tests are
available; however, people may still have the infection even if the results are
negative. A
type of polymerase
chain reaction that detects the virus's RNA is
more accurate.
Frequent
hand washing reduces the risk of viral spread. Wearing a surgical mask is also useful however, I
wouldn’t wear one if I had been vaccinated against influenza.
Yearly vaccinations against influenza are recommended by the World
Health Organization (WHO) for those at high risk and by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for those six months
of age and older. The vaccine is usually effective against three or four
types of influenza. It is usually well-tolerated. A vaccine made for one
year may not be useful in the following year, since the virus evolves rapidly
in fighting the Antiviral drugs such as the neuraminidase
inhibitor r oseltamivir, among others, that have been
used to treat influenza. The benefit of antiviral drugs in those who are
otherwise healthy do not appear to be greater than their risks. No benefit has
been found in those with other health problems.
Influenza
spreads around the world in yearly outbreaks, resulting in about three to five
million cases of severe illness and about 250,000 to 500,000 deaths. About
20% of unvaccinated children and 10% of unvaccinated adults are infected each
year. In the northern and southern parts of the world, outbreaks
occur mainly in the winter, while around the equator, outbreaks may occur at any time
of the year. Death occurs mostly in the young, the old, and those with
other health problems. Larger outbreaks known as pandemics are less frequent.
] In the 20th century,
three influenza pandemics occurred such as the Spanish influenza in 1918 (40–50 million deaths), Asian influenza in 1957 (two million
deaths), and Hong Kong influenza in 1968 (one million
deaths). The World
Health Organization declared an outbreak of a new type of influenza
A/H1N1 to
be a pandemic in June 2009. Influenza may also affect
other animals, including pigs, horses, and birds.
It has been estimated that over
25 million people in Canada in 1918 had
died from that disease. Now here is the scary information which applies to all
of us.
If our grandparents and our
parents living in Canada or other countries where the 1918 Spanish Flu was
killing millions of people and they too were killed by that flu, then none of
us would be alive today and that goes for our children and our grandchildren.
I am the precursor of the
United Nations bill of rights for young offenders. I brought into Canada, the
law that compensates innocent persons who were wrongfully imprisoned. I also
brought into Canada the law that when anyone who is arrested and taken to a
police station, the police have to give them the phone number of 24 hour duty
counsel who will give the person who is in police custody that phone
number. These two laws are beneficial to
everyone in Canada. However, had my parents died from influenza in 1918, these
things I did would not have come about when they did.
Think of all the wonderful
things that came about prior to our parents births if the parents of scientists
and the innovators were not born because their parents died of
influenza in 1918. Think of all the
wonderful things your young children and their children may do in the future
that may benefit millions of people in the future. Their good deeds may not come about if their
parents died from influenza.
Is my message reaching you? If
so, then go to your doctor or your pharmacist to get your flu shot. It won’t
cost you since flu shots are free.
This suggestion is most
important to the elderly because their immune systems aren’t as powerful as
they were when they were younger.
The law in
the province of Ontario in Canada states that parents must ensure that their
children are vaccinated against a certain list of diseases unless they obtain a
medical exemption. However, five parents and the non-profit Vaccine Choice Canada to which the five
parents belong, allege that the Immunization
of School Pupils Act breaches the rights to freedom of conscience and
religion and to liberty and security of the person, among other rights in the
Charter,
That reason is stupid. The Canadian
Charter of Rights doesn’t give parents the right to refuse to protect their
children from dangerous viruses. The government can intercede if a child is in
any form of danger.
Don’t be one of those stupid
people who think that the vaccine will kill them. Admittedly, some people have
reactions from the vaccine but as far as I know, no one has died from a flu
vaccine.
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