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What is Influenza

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Handbook of Research on Systems Biology Applications in Medicine
An acute contagious viral infection characterized by inflammation of the respiratory tract and by fever, chills and muscular pain.
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A Pandemic Avian Influenza Mathematical Model
Mohamed Derouich (Faculté des sciences Oujda-Morocco, Morocco)
Copyright: © 2009 |Pages: 11
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-076-9.ch043
Abstract
Throughout the world, seasonal outbreaks of influenza affect millions of people, killing about 500,000 individuals every year. Human influenza viruses are classified into 3 serotypes: A, B, and C. Only influenza A viruses can infect and multiply in avian species. During the last decades, important avian influenza epidemics have occurred and so far, the epidemics among birds have been transmitted to humans; but the most feared problem is the risk of pandemics that may be caused by person-to person transmission. The present mathematical model deals with the dynamics of human infection by avian influenza both in birds and in humans. Stability analysis is carried out and the behaviour of the disease is illustrated by simulation with different parameters values.
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