2006-10-05 08:50:57 · 12 answers · asked by Winner! 2 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Other - Diseases
The WHO says flu is a viral infection, caused by flu strain infection agents such as fluids and nasal spray. So a doctor will say you have a flu virus.
2006-10-13 06:15:02 · answer #1 · answered by Calvin of China, PhD 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-08-27 06:01:52 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What We Know About the Flu Virus
A flu virus is roughly round, but it can also be elongated or irregularly shaped. Inside are eight segments of single-strand RNA containing the genetic instructions for making new copies of the virus. Flu's most striking feature is a layer of spikes projecting from its surface. There are two different types of spikes: one is the protein hemagglutinin (HA), which allows the virus to "stick" to a cell and initiate infection, the other is a protein called neuraminidase (NA), which enables newly formed viruses to exit the host cell.
2006-10-11 07:39:22 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Influenza, commonly known as the flu, is an infectious disease that infects birds and mammals (primarily of the upper airways and lungs in mammals) and is caused by an RNA virus of the Orthomyxoviridae family (the influenza viruses). The most common and characteristic symptoms of influenza in humans are fever, pharyngitis (sore throat), myalgia (muscle pains), severe headache, coughing, and malaise (weakness and fatigue).
A cold and a 'stomach flu' are very different from a flu. Influenza can be far more severe than the common cold and can even lead to death. Influenza and the common cold are caused by very different viruses. Gastroenteritis is commonly called "stomach flu" or "24 hour flu"; but that is a misnomer as it is not connected with the actual flu.
Flu rapidly spreads around the world in seasonal epidemics, killing millions of people in pandemic years and hundreds of thousands in nonpandemic years. It creates health care costs and lost productivity. Three influenza pandemics in the 20th century, each following a major genetic change in the virus, killed millions of people all over the world. The world's current major influenza pandemic threat is H5N1; but it is at present mostly a flu in birds, not in people
2006-10-05 08:55:17 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes, its not a bacteria, there is no antibiotic for a virus.
2006-10-05 08:53:20 · answer #5 · answered by metallica_rocks0122 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes. This is why the doctor's can only treat the symptoms and not the bug itself.
2006-10-12 13:07:40 · answer #6 · answered by quatrapiller 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes its a Virus a nasty one at that.
2006-10-10 06:11:34 · answer #7 · answered by duc602 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!! the flu is not a virus, it's a virus
2006-10-10 06:11:03 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
yes
2006-10-05 08:58:31 · answer #9 · answered by ilovedogsandcats17 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
uh, yeah, influenza virus. can't use antibiotics for it. can use amantidine though.
2006-10-05 09:18:48 · answer #10 · answered by Gumnaam1 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋