Posts Tagged ‘flu’

Influenza (flu) and the skin (For professionals)

Saturday, August 7th, 2010

Influenza (flu) is an ubiquitous infection caused by a RNA virus. Symptoms of the disease include sore throat, fever, cough, chills, myalgia, headache, asthenia (fatigue), general discomfort. Influenza can evolve into pneumonia, which can cause death. There is a infinite variety of different genotypes. Two proteins on the viral surface called Haemagglutinin (H) and Neuraminidase […]

image description