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Influenza-like illness (ILI), also known as flu-like syndrome or flu-like symptoms, is a medical diagnosis of possible influenza or other illness causing a set of common symptoms. These include fever, shivering, chills, malaise, dry cough, loss of appetite, body aches, nausea, and sneezing typically in connection with a sudden onset of illness. [1]
This is a list of infectious diseases, other than the most common ones, that cause flu-like syndrome (influenza-like illness): Bacterial. Anthrax [1] Brucellosis [2]
Ah, January. The season of new beginnings, icy winds, and respiratory infections. With a “quad-demic” of diseases circulating the country—flu, COVID, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), and ...
The exception are bat influenza-like viruses, which have an uncertain origin. These bat viruses have HA and NA subtypes H17, H18, N10, and N11. H17N10 and H18N11 are unable to reassort with other influenza A viruses, but they are still able to replicate in other mammals. [1] Equine influenza A viruses include H7N7 and two lineages [1] of H3N8.
There are four different types of influenza virus: A, B, C, and D. Influenza C usually causes only mild illness while D mostly affects animals, especially cattle.
There's another virus out there that could be adding to the seasonal misery, but it's not being identified.
The 1889–1890 pandemic, often referred to as the Asiatic flu [53] or Russian flu, killed about 1 million people [54] [55] out of a world population of about 1.5 billion. It was long believed to be caused by an influenza A subtype (most often H2N2), but recent analysis largely brought on by the 2002-2004 SARS outbreak and the COVID-19 pandemic ...
Anyone of age 6 months and up is eligible for an updated COVID-19 vaccine, which, like the flu shot, is reformulated each year to better match circulating variants. Experts say that groups such as ...