EBK ESSENTIALS OF PATHOPHYSIOLOGY
EBK ESSENTIALS OF PATHOPHYSIOLOGY
4th Edition
ISBN: 9781469893389
Author: PORTH
Publisher: WOLTERS KLUWER HEALTH (COURSE)
Question
Book Icon
Chapter 22, Problem 1RE

A.

Summary Introduction

To determine: Thesymptoms that would lead to the belief that an individual has flu.

Introduction: Influenza is the disease associated with the respiratory tract. It is transmitted through coughing, sneezing. The virus replicates in every 48 hours after contraction and resides in the nasopharynx.

A.

Expert Solution
Check Mark

Explanation of Solution

The symptoms of flu include fever, running nose, headache, bodyache, burning eyes, and sore throat. The individual who exhibits all of a few of these symptoms can be diagnosed with flu. The flu can be due to viral infection or bacterial infection. The incubation period of flu is about 1-3 days that can be managed with medications.

B.

Summary Introduction

To determine: The rationale behind the ineffectiveness of antibiotics in treating flu.

Introduction: Influenza virus is the most common form of viral disease, which is highly contagious and spread from one individual to another through a variety of means like infected objects, coughing, sneezing, and so on.

B.

Expert Solution
Check Mark

Explanation of Solution

The common cold or flu is mainly caused by viral infection belonging to a category of rhinovirus, which causes running nose, headache, bodyache, sore throat, and fever. This common cold cannot be treated by antibiotics because these medications do not eliminate the virus from the host as they only act on bacteria and other microbes.

The symptoms disappear when the viral pathogen leaves the body and moves into the surrounding. Therefore medications like analgesic, anti-inflammatory can help relieve the symptoms and not eliminate the target pathogen.

C.

Summary Introduction

To determine: The reason that the flu vaccine does not prevent the disease from happening later on in life.

Introduction: Vaccines are described as one of the most effective forms of preventive treatment given against disease-causingmicroorganisms. The vaccines are prepared by killed pathogenicorganism or their live attenuated (weakened) forms.

C.

Expert Solution
Check Mark

Explanation of Solution

The flu vaccine consists of live attenuated bacteria that can help prevent the flu from occurring in a short period. However, in a span of a longer period, the disease can affect the vaccinated individual because the flu from a virus is resistant to the vaccine. So the virus can easily enter the body through coughing, sneezing or fomites contaminated from an infected individual.

D.

Summary Introduction

To determine: The reason for suspicion on flu pandemic similar to the one spread from 1917 to 1918.

Introduction: The word pandemic implies a disease that spreads to a larger area covering a vast population causing many causalities at a particular period in time. The condition differs from epidemic as the epidemic spreads over a small geographical area, but pandemic covers the majority of areas of the world hence impacts global populations.

D.

Expert Solution
Check Mark

Explanation of Solution

The influenza pandemic started in the year 1917 and continued until the year 1918. However, in recent years it is speculated that the coming decades can face similar situations. This is because of antibiotic resistance and an increase in the mutation rate of viral pathogens.

Due to antibiotic resistance, the bacteria are becoming more resistant and tolerable to the available antibiotics, therefore, causing deaths from previously treatable diseases. The increase in mutation rate in viral pathogen also contribute to the decrease in the recovery of the flu patients, thereby escalating the risk of a pandemic.

Want to see more full solutions like this?

Subscribe now to access step-by-step solutions to millions of textbook problems written by subject matter experts!

Chapter 22 Solutions

EBK ESSENTIALS OF PATHOPHYSIOLOGY

Knowledge Booster
Background pattern image
Recommended textbooks for you
Text book image
Human Anatomy & Physiology (11th Edition)
Biology
ISBN:9780134580999
Author:Elaine N. Marieb, Katja N. Hoehn
Publisher:PEARSON
Text book image
Biology 2e
Biology
ISBN:9781947172517
Author:Matthew Douglas, Jung Choi, Mary Ann Clark
Publisher:OpenStax
Text book image
Anatomy & Physiology
Biology
ISBN:9781259398629
Author:McKinley, Michael P., O'loughlin, Valerie Dean, Bidle, Theresa Stouter
Publisher:Mcgraw Hill Education,
Text book image
Molecular Biology of the Cell (Sixth Edition)
Biology
ISBN:9780815344322
Author:Bruce Alberts, Alexander D. Johnson, Julian Lewis, David Morgan, Martin Raff, Keith Roberts, Peter Walter
Publisher:W. W. Norton & Company
Text book image
Laboratory Manual For Human Anatomy & Physiology
Biology
ISBN:9781260159363
Author:Martin, Terry R., Prentice-craver, Cynthia
Publisher:McGraw-Hill Publishing Co.
Text book image
Inquiry Into Life (16th Edition)
Biology
ISBN:9781260231700
Author:Sylvia S. Mader, Michael Windelspecht
Publisher:McGraw Hill Education