Influence also knew as flu made its first appearance in 1918. The typical symptoms of the flu are/ were coughing, sore throat, body aches, fever, and headaches. Influenza is a disease that isn’t just a seasonal cold; there are different types of flu viruses. The first virus that attacked in 1918 was Virus A with the subtype H1N1 which caused people to die within hours. There are three different classifications of the flu virus which is A, B, and C. In 1918 there wasn’t any medication or vaccines to help a person, so millions of people died. Today although each type of virus shares the same symptoms it can only be tested to know what type of virus the person has. Currently the most common flu virus A and B which are very problematic and especially at which has the potential of causing an epidemic.
Furthermore, Influenza A viruses can be transmitted to humans and animals. Type A virus is the only one that contains two different subtypes, and for
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The virus is adapting to the cause of two or more different strains which are in a subtype are forming different subtype that is stronger. There have been cases of thousands of people dying from the flu as recent as in 2017. People have been dying from the flu even when they didn’t have a prior medical complication for example in the case of Alani Murrieta. Based on the Article "How Does the Flu Kill People? " "The next day she went to an urgent care clinic, where she was diagnosed with the flu and prescribed the antiviral medication Tamiflu...Tuesday morning she was having trouble breathing and was spitting up blood." This was one out of thousands of people that have died. Scientists are eagerly formulating a way to diagnose and create a vaccine to prevent this quickly. The U.C.L.A teams vaccine could be helpful in this case because the viruses are starting to become