The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention keeps a log of reported cases of adenovirus. There were so many outbreaks among new military recruits that the Department of Defense vaccinates personnel against two of the more serious strains with an oral vaccine.
Losing a loved one to viral pneumonia when you know it could have been prevented is hard. In the U. Adenovirus is not the killer that influenza is. Influenza kills 12, to 50, people a year in the United States alone, and puts up to , in the hospital. A cocktail of other viruses, from coronaviruses to rhinoviruses, also cause seasonal misery. And adenoviruses are very hard to kill.
Reports indicate they can survive on plastic and metal surfaces— think countertops and hospital tables— for a month. While RSV typically presents with flu-like symptoms in adults including runny nose, coughing, sneezing, wheezing, sore throat, fever, headache, fatigue, and decreased appetite , the illness can be less obvious in kids and babies.
In infants younger than six months, there may only be vague symptoms: irritability, feeding less than usual, lethargy, labored breathing , and fever. Meanwhile, older babies, toddlers, and young kids might first experience a runny nose and reduced appetite, followed by sneezing, coughing, wheezing, or fever one to three days later, the CDC explains. Most cases of RSV will go away on their own in a week or two without any particular treatment. Since there are currently no specific drugs for RSV, treatment involves managing symptoms with over-the-counter pain relievers and fever reducers, plus adequate hydration.
Very sick infants and older adults may need to go to the hospital if they experience dehydration or difficulty breathing. Rarely, extremely sick individuals might require supplemental oxygen or intubation and ventilation for a few days. The CDC recommends that health care providers and caregivers keep RSV symptoms for different age groups at top of mind, and consider testing for RSV in all patients who have symptoms of an acute respiratory illness—like trouble breathing, coughing, and fever—but test negative for COVID Kelvin explains that flu viruses have their genetic information stored in broken up, segmented chunks, rather than in a long string like coronaviruses.
Not only that, the direction that the genetic information is read to make the proteins that the virus needs to function and replicate is backwards in flu viruses and forwards in coronaviruses. Trying to read a flu virus genome forwards would produce a nonsensical, garbled set of instructions and trying to read a coronavirus genome backwards would be similarly fruitless. These differences make it astronomically unlikely the two could combine to make a supervirus.
Kelvin points out that different coronaviruses are responsible for some of the common colds that many people suffer every year, especially during the winter season in the Northern Hemisphere.
We call this blockage of co-infections Viral Interference, which is well known during the cold and flu season. So now numerous cases of Flurona have been detected in several countries around the world, what do we expect to learn about what happens to people who have these two diseases simultaneously? Laboratory studies, including those in my own lab, have offered some insight into the disease and immunological dynamics associated with co-infection.
Meningitis is another illness that comes in bacterial and viral forms. Both have symptoms that closely resemble the flu. What sets them apart is a stiff neck and sensitivity to light.
The viral version is milder and more common, and, like the flu, its symptoms usually clear up on their own after about a week with rest and fluids. The bacterial version , on the other hand, can be much more serious.
If not treated immediately with antibiotics, it can cause brain damage and even lead to death. You might've heard mono described as "the kissing disease" because it can be passed through saliva as well as through mucus. The Epstein Barr virus is a common cause of mono, and it's most often found in kids, teens and young adults.
It's symptoms resemble the flu, but they usually take much longer to show up, and often the most overwhelming symptom is tiredness. Unlike the flu, it can last for up to six weeks. Aside from the time component, another big differentiator is how it affects your organs.
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