Task 3- Joint Assinment

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In this task we were asked to pair up with someone else in the class. I paired up with Emma who I sit next to in class, we were friends before this task so it helped and we both knew how each other works and what we were aiming for in grades. We were given the infectious disease 'Influenza'. I was disappointed when I was first given this as I wanted to look into a disease that I had not necessarily got the greatest knowledge about and would like to learn something new. However, we stuck with influenza and firstly completed a fact sheet about influenza. From this fact sheet we could produce a detailed assignment about this topic. we had to write up a contract so each of us had to stick to and had to work together to get the best possible results we were hoping for. This is the basic information about influenza that we found out about and this helped us build on this to produce the full assignment.

Infectious Disease Fact Sheet

Name of disease:	Influenza
Name of causative agent	RNA viruses of the family Orthomyxovindae
Type of microbe	Bacterium     Eukaryote      Virus    Provirus
If bacterial:	Not bacterial
Gram-reaction	N/A
Cell shape and arrangement	N/A
If Eukaryotic	Alga  Protozoa  Platyhelminth  Nematode  Fungus                                Not a Eukaryotic
Multicellular or unicellular	N/A
If Viral	DNA   +Strand RNA   -Strand RNA   Retrovirus
Naked or Enveloped	Enveloped
Formation of Provirus	Gets the cell to reproduce the RNA of the virus, breaks into your cells and puts RNA into the cells DNA
Epidemiology:
Geographic prevalence	Worldwide
Average rate of infection (Ro Number)	R-O is 1. If one person had influenza, one person would catch it etc.
Reservoir(s)	Pigs, Birds, Humans, Non-loiving organisms (Chairs, lift buttons, door handles etc).
Main transmission mode(s)	Coughing, Sneezing, Direct contact, Contact with contaminated objects, contaminated moisture droplets in air.
Pathology:
Major tissue/organs affected	Lungs, Bronchi, Throat.
Major signs/symptoms	High Temp, chest pains, breathing difficulties, sickness, fatigue, sore throat, muscle soreness, headaches, sensitive to light.
Sequalae?	Long Term consequences: have pneumonia, Reyes syndrome- effects brain, and cardiac complications- inflammation of heart.
Latency?	Between 2-7 days
Treatment:
Main treatment methods	Rest, antiviral drugs (Adamantane), drugs to relieve sore throats, runny nose and coughs.
Typical length of treatment	Approx 7-14 days
Prophylactic measures	Social isolation