lecture 6 flu Flashcards
vaccine sideeffects
soreness, fatigue, muscle ache, fever, chill, joint pain, headache
tight throat, swole lips, hives, stomach pain are signs of?
anaphylaxis
in berkeley, CA, a vaccine was contaminated for which virus?
live polio virus
the cutter incident caused which symptoms in which pop?
permanent paralyzed, death; kids
green monkey cell vaccines were contaminated with __? poss sympt?
SV40; cancer
swine flu vaccine linked to what syndrome? what does this synfrome do?
guillian barre syndrome; CNS paralysis
lessons learned from covid,
scale up testing, trust data, diverse voices, vaccine, improve communication
influenza means?
“influence of cold”
what type of bacteria/virus is influenza
RNA transcription virus
key surface proteins for influenza are?
henmagglutinin and neuraminidase
type A of influenza transmission
humans and animals
type B of influenza transmission
only people
type C of influenza transmission
only people (Mild)
types of Type A influenza
H AND N
cutter incident spurred what? what disease was it or?
regulations to make vaccines safer; polio
RNA viruses have antigentic shift T/F?
FALSE they have antigenetic DRIFT
we need a new fluvaccine each year because opf
new variants of flu yearly due to antigentic drift
atigentic shifts can cause__
pandemics
how many pieces of RNA does flu virus have? how do they assort themselves?
8; independently
flu antigentic shift happens due to reassortment with whic strain?
avian strains; their H and N adapt to human ones
reassortment of flu can happen in humans and which animals?
other mammals like horses a nd pigs