Part 1
I think that this story is true about the catching the virus. When you catch the chickenpox you don’t catch them any more, cause you only catch a virus one time. Like a cold you only can catch it 101 times, cause every time you catch a cold is a different kind. If you think about every cold that catch feels different and it’s coming from a different virus every time. If the system has a disease it takes a while for it to recognized it, but when it recognized it destroy it so it want come back.
Why is this article significant to you?
This is a good article because it teaches you about a lot of things. Like I did know that when you catch a cold it’s a different cold. The article said that you could only catch a cold 101 times out of your life. I didn’t know that herpes and chickenpox is in the same
Part 2
How does the flu build a resistance to drug treatment?The flu builds a resistance by constantly changing. Some versions are the flu are combated and eliminated, leaving the stronger version of the flu. These stronger versions are more resistance. The stronger versions, which are already, resist common medication, then multiply and change further, which increases the resistance even more. In this time the variations of the flu that initially were susceptible to medication also evolve. (Not all of it is ever wiped out) They mutate into a completely different virus that could also become resistant to medication.
Why is the build up of resistance to an anti-flu drug referred to as evolving?It is referred to evolving because that is basically what is happening. The resistance is caused by virus mutation. The viruses constantly are changing, or evolving, into variations of the virus. This creates probably for anti-flu medication because it is hard to fight something that keeps changing. The flu is adapting to survive anti-flu medication.
This article named Tamiflu and Relenza as anti-flu medications. How do these drug "get rid" of the flu virus? Tamiflu acts to prevet viral reproduction of the flu. It works to stop an enzyme called neuraminidase. Supposedly stopping this enzyme prevents the flu from reproducing into your blood stream. The fewer flu viruses you have in your body the better you feel. Relenza also targets Neuraminidase. It removes the sialic acid receptors and also newly formed viral particles. This prevents the flu from spreading.
Can antibiotics be prescribed to treat the flu? Why or Why not?Antibiotics should not be used to treat the flu because they are developed for fighting bacterial infections, not viral infections. The flu is a virus therefore anti-biotics would not harm it. Using antibiotics too often forces your body to build a resistance, which could harm you when you actually need antibiotics.
Part 3
My story was about get your flu shot for the year, and how they trying to make if you are old then the age of nine you can get two shots a year. If you are scared of needles they have something in a nasal spray and you can use it once a year. In the story it told me the important facts about the flu, like 200,000 was hospitalized and 36,000 died from the flu.
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