Influenza cure research
A disease week project
The info
The influenza vaccine can have many seasons if it is wrong you can still catch the flu. If the flu vaccine matches the flu virus then it prevents you from getting sick
Over the years many flu shots was wrong because they were not sure which season to use but now they have new technology to be more precise but they can still be wrong
This is what getting an influenza vaccine looks like
That is the season vaccine they could use
A victim of influenza when not treated properly
How deadly it is
There was an influenza epidemic in 1918 about 25% of the worlds population died. It was in Europe Asia and the US they had no effective medicine or vaccine to treat it so people wore masks most victims were very young or healthy adults most public places there were shuttered.They later found out that influenza virus had invaded their lungs and caused pneumonia.
The cost
The medicine itself without insurance cost $100 in all it could be $200. With insurance and all the cost could be $130