Influenza (Flu)

MODES OF SPREAD

Transmitted mainly from person to person by droplet infection or droplet nuclei created by sneezing, coughing, or talking

  SYMPTOMS

• Fever lasts from 1-5 days on average 3 days in adults which rises up to high grade
• Chills and headache
• Coughing
• Aches and body pains
• Generalized body weakness

PREVENTION

• Encouraging sufferers to cover their faces with hand kerchief when coughing and sneezing

• Tell the patient to stay at home at the first sign of influenza

• Avoidance of crowded places during wide spread disease in community