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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 ...
Bornholm disease (Coxsackie B virus) COVID-19 [4] [5] Chickenpox; ... WrongDiagnosis.com » Symptoms » Flu-like symptoms » Causes Retrieved on April 10, 2009
Influenza, commonly known as the flu, is an infectious disease caused by influenza viruses. Symptoms range from mild to severe and often include fever, runny nose, sore throat, muscle pain, headache, coughing, and fatigue. These symptoms begin one to four (typically two) days after exposure to the virus and last for about two to eight days.
Lower respiratory infectious disease is the fifth-leading cause of death and the combined leading infectious cause of death, being responsible for 2.74 million deaths worldwide. [27] This is generally similar to estimates in the 2010 Global Burden of Disease study. [ 28 ]
The unusually severe disease killed between 10 and 20% of those infected, as opposed to the more usual flu epidemic mortality rate of 0.1%. [ 28 ] [ 57 ] Another unusual feature of this pandemic was that it mostly killed young adults, with 99% of pandemic influenza deaths occurring in people under 65, and more than half in young adults 20 to 40 ...
The historian Fujikawa listed 46 epidemics of flu-like illness in Japan between 862 and 1868. [42] In Europe and the Americas, a number of epidemics were recorded through the Middle Ages and up to the end of the 19th century. [41] Timeline of flu pandemics and epidemics caused by influenza A virus
The disease has three phases: prodromal, cardiopulmonary, and recovery. Prodromal symptoms last for 1–5 days [ 1 ] and include fever, headache, muscle pain (myalgia), nausea, vomiting, dizziness, chills, flu-like symptoms like coughing and shortness of breath (dyspnea), and low platelet count in the blood ( thrombocytopenia ).
The unidentified disease has infected at least 300 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo since November 10, causing flu-like symptoms, that country’s health ministry told the BBC.