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Examples of Viruses

Examples of Viruses. Influenza. Seasonal Influenza: Flu Basics

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Examples of Viruses

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  1. Examples of Viruses

  2. Influenza • Seasonal Influenza: Flu Basics • Influenza (the flu) is contagious respiratory disorder. It can cause mild to severe illness, and can lead to death. Some people, with certain health conditions, are at high risk for serious flu complications. The best way to prevent the flu is by getting vaccinated each year.

  3. Chickenpox • Chickenpox is a very contagious disease caused by the varicella-zoster virus (VZV). It causes a blister-like rash, itching, tiredness, and fever. Chickenpox can be serious, especially in babies, adults, and people with weakened immune systems. It spreads easily from infected people to others who have never had chickenpox or received the chickenpox vaccine. Chickenpox spreads in the air through coughing or sneezing. It can also be spread by touching or breathing in the virus particles that come from chickenpox blisters.

  4. STD’s • HPV • HIV • Viral Hepatitis • Herpes

  5. Polio • Polio is a crippling and potentially deadly infectious disease caused by a virus that spreads from person to person invading the brain and spinal cord and causing paralysis. Because polio has no cure, vaccination is the best way to protect yourself and the only way to stop the disease from spreading.

  6. Measles, Mumps, and Rubella • Measles causes fever, runny nose, cough and a rash all over the body. About one out of 10 children with measles also gets an ear infection, and up to one out of 20 gets pneumonia. For every 1,000 children who get measles, one or two will die. • Mumps typically starts with a few days of fever, headache, muscle aches, tiredness, and loss of appetite, and is followed by swelling of salivary glands. Anyone who is not immune from either previous mumps infection or from vaccination can get mumps. • German Measles- Rash and fever for two to three days (mild disease in children and young adults)

  7. Ebola • The onset of illness is abrupt and is characterized by fever, headache, joint and muscle aches, sore throat, and weakness, followed by diarrhea, vomiting, and stomach pain. A rash, red eyes, hiccups and internal and external bleeding may be seen in some patients.

  8. West Nile Virus • The severe symptoms can include high fever, headache, neck stiffness, stupor, disorientation, coma, tremors, convulsions, muscle weakness, vision loss, numbness and paralysis. These symptoms may last several weeks, and neurological effects may be permanent. • Up to 20 percent of the people who become infected have symptoms such as fever, headache, and body aches, nausea, vomiting, and sometimes swollen lymph glands or a skin rash on the chest, stomach and back.

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