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28 Şubat 2012 Salı

The Flu

Influenza, generally called as flu by people, is a communicable illness infected by RNA viruses of the influenza viruses. It delivers to birds, mammals and people. The most common signs of this ilness are  fever, sore throat, muscle aching, strong headache, coughing, weakness . People believe that it comes when we get cold common cold,but it comes when we get the viruses from the air or from the people who have the flu. Influenza may cause vomiting especially in children.
Generally, the flu is transmitted through the air by coughing or sneezing, directly connecting with bird delivering nasal viruses. The flu viruses can be gone by sunlight, disinfectants, antibiotics and detergents. People can protect themselves by soap, frequent hand washing to reduce the infection of the flu.
On average 41,400 people died each year in the United States between 1979 and 2001 from the flu.  In 2010 the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the United States  reported the 30 years for deaths. Now they are reporting 3,300 deaths to a high of 49,000 per year.


26 Şubat 2012 Pazar

CHİCKENPOX



Chickenpox is a a bad illness . It occurs because of  infection that people call  varicella zoster virus.  It usually starts on the skin and spreads on the body with watery circles and acnes  and  becomes itchy. They can't be healed heal if you touch them and they can remain on our body  as scars. Chickenpox  spreads easily by coughing or sneezing from ill people and when we connect with  them  closely. A person with chickenpox is infectious one to two days before the illness is seen.The infection can take6 days. It takes from 10 to 21 days after initial infection for the disease to improve.
The ilness's symptoms are  itching, nausea,  fever, headache, sore throat, ears pain  and swollen face. For children, the first symptom is usually the occurence of watery acnes  and  fever (a body temperature of 38 ° C and  42 °C in some cases. Sometimes it causes too much pain to the lower back. Also people can not eat anything during the ilness. In general, because of this disease adults have much pain then the children. .Chickenpox might be too dangerous to kill people and  it gives much pain to adult males more than in adult females or children. Non-immune pregnant women are at high risk of having this ilness.