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==Influenza== | ==Influenza== | ||
Influenza <ref name="flu">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenza Influenza] (in Wikipedia).</ref> is a contagious disease caused by a virus. Influenza A<ref name="flu_a">See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenza#Types_of_influenza_virus Influenza A Types of Influenza Virus] (in Wikipedia).</ref> (one of several genera and species of influenza) is the most virulent form infecting humans. Largely by facilitating secondary bacterial pneumonias, influenza kills 500,000 people worldwide annually (including about 36,000 in the USA), mostly during seasonal [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epidemic epidemics] each year. Most people killed in the annual influenza epidemics are people whose immune defenses are weak, including the very young and the old. Influenza also kills large numbers of animals and birds, both domestic and wild<ref name="animals">[http://www.fao.org/avianflu/en/clinical.html Epidemiology of Avian Influenza] at the [http://fao.org Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations].</ref>. | Influenza <ref name="flu">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenza Influenza] (in Wikipedia).</ref> is a contagious disease caused by a virus. Influenza A<ref name="flu_a">See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenza#Types_of_influenza_virus Influenza A Types of Influenza Virus] (in Wikipedia).</ref> (one of several genera and species of influenza) is the most virulent form infecting humans. Largely by facilitating secondary bacterial pneumonias, influenza kills 500,000 people worldwide annually (including about 36,000 in the USA), mostly during seasonal [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epidemic epidemics] each year. Most people killed in the annual influenza epidemics are people whose immune defenses are weak, including the very young and the old. Influenza also kills large numbers of animals and birds, both domestic and wild<ref name="animals">[http://www.fao.org/avianflu/en/clinical.html Epidemiology of Avian Influenza] at the [http://fao.org Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations].</ref>. The influenza virus includes only eight proteins. Sequences of these proteins as obtained from numerous strains are available in the [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genomes/FLU/Database/select.cgi?go=1 NCBI Influenza Virus Resource]. | ||
==Influenza Virus Neuraminidase== | ==Influenza Virus Neuraminidase== | ||