Influenza: the next pandemic?: A review

East African Medical Journal
F O AdungoS L Yingst

Abstract

To examine existing information on the recent influenza outbreaks in order to create awareness of a possible influenza pandemic and to suggest future research areas in developing control strategies in Kenya. Review of literature via Internet, articles, journals and un-refereed features from the media and personal communications. Most published data from 1979 to March 2005 found to reveal cases of influenza outbreaks were included in the review. Also, selected articles on the recent outbreaks and professional guidance on influenza infections were critically examined and analyzed. Abstracts and articles identified were accessed, read to establish relevance to this review. Important points were prioritised and then included as subtitles; below each subtitle, published works were included. Finally, a table of influenza outbreaks and the strains of the viruses involved were drawn as summary. Influenza is a highly contagious, acute respiratory disease that may spread rapidly and pervasively through a population. Due to the diversity of susceptible reservoirs of influenza viruses and the interspecies transmission recently reported, a mutated strain of the virus to which people have no immunity could cause an influenza pandemic once th...Continue Reading

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