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  • Thumbnail for Spanish flu
    Great Influenza epidemic or by the common misnomer Spanish flu, was an exceptionally deadly global influenza pandemic caused by the H1N1 influenza A virus...
    238 KB (26,791 words) - 06:52, 29 May 2024
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    Influenza, commonly known as "the flu" or just "flu", is an infectious disease caused by influenza viruses. Symptoms range from mild to severe and often...
    109 KB (12,862 words) - 22:13, 30 May 2024
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    Influenza A virus is a pathogen that causes the flu in birds and some mammals, including humans. It is an RNA virus whose subtypes have been isolated...
    64 KB (6,736 words) - 15:49, 5 June 2024
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    Avian influenza, also known as avian flu or bird flu, is a disease caused by the influenza A virus (IAV) which primarily affects birds but can sometimes...
    76 KB (8,932 words) - 08:40, 6 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for 2009 swine flu pandemic
    The 2009 swine flu pandemic, caused by the H1N1/swine flu/influenza virus and declared by the World Health Organization (WHO) from June 2009 to August...
    161 KB (16,811 words) - 06:29, 15 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Influenza A virus subtype H5N1
    Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 (A/H5N1) is a subtype of the influenza A virus, which causes influenza (flu), predominantly in birds. It is enzootic (maintained...
    103 KB (10,947 words) - 02:55, 6 June 2024
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    In virology, influenza A virus subtype H1N1 (A/H1N1) is a subtype of influenza A virus. Major outbreaks of H1N1 strains in humans include the 1918 Spanish...
    52 KB (5,143 words) - 18:09, 8 April 2024
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    Quaranjavirus. The first four genera contain viruses that cause influenza in birds (see also avian influenza) and mammals, including humans. Isaviruses infect salmon;...
    39 KB (4,234 words) - 22:25, 30 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Swine influenza
    Swine influenza is an infection caused by any of several types of swine influenza viruses. Swine influenza virus (SIV) or swine-origin influenza virus...
    82 KB (9,254 words) - 22:32, 27 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Influenza vaccine
    Influenza vaccines, colloquially known as flu shots, are vaccines that protect against infection by influenza viruses. New versions of the vaccines are...
    177 KB (17,743 words) - 01:02, 7 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Haemophilus influenzae
    influenzae was first described in 1893 by Richard Pfeiffer during an influenza pandemic when he incorrectly identified it as the causative microbe, which...
    44 KB (4,815 words) - 17:40, 1 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Influenza B virus
    Influenza B virus is the only species in the genus Betainfluenzavirus in the virus family Orthomyxoviridae. Influenza B virus is only known to infect...
    28 KB (3,046 words) - 06:37, 27 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Influenza pandemic
    An influenza pandemic is an epidemic of an influenza virus that spreads across a large region (either multiple continents or worldwide) and infects a...
    111 KB (12,756 words) - 21:27, 31 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Live attenuated influenza vaccine
    attenuated influenza vaccine (LAIV) is a type of influenza vaccine in the form of a nasal spray that is recommended for the prevention of influenza. It was...
    28 KB (2,521 words) - 04:08, 1 June 2024
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    Influenza-like illness (ILI), also known as flu-like syndrome or flu-like symptoms, is a medical diagnosis of possible influenza or other illness causing...
    16 KB (1,749 words) - 15:25, 5 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for 1889–1890 pandemic
    Although contemporaries described the pandemic as influenza and 20th-century scholars identified several influenza strains as the possible pathogen, several authors...
    37 KB (3,818 words) - 06:53, 17 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for 1957–1958 influenza pandemic
    The 1957–1958 Asian flu pandemic was a global pandemic of influenza A virus subtype H2N2 that originated in Guizhou in Southern China. The number of excess...
    104 KB (12,347 words) - 17:01, 23 May 2024
  • deadliest pandemics in history, and was caused by an H3N2 strain of the influenza A virus. The virus was descended from H2N2 (which caused the Asian flu...
    67 KB (8,100 words) - 01:34, 24 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pandemic H1N1/09 virus
    The pandemic H1N1/09 virus is a swine origin influenza A virus subtype H1N1 strain that was responsible for the 2009 swine flu pandemic. This strain is...
    62 KB (6,709 words) - 18:12, 7 June 2024
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    were influenza vaccines developed to protect against the pandemic H1N1/09 virus. These vaccines either contained inactivated (killed) influenza virus...
    96 KB (9,959 words) - 15:49, 7 June 2024
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