Transmission+-+Allison

HOW IS THE FLU SPREAD??

1. When an infected perons cough, snezzes, or kissing someone, relseasing the viral particels into the air.

2. Another person in the room can breathe in the viral particles

3. Once the particels are in that person the protein of the virus connects to the cells in the lungs proteins and injects fusion with cell membrane

4. Once the virus is in the cell, it multiples

WHERE DOES THE FLU COME FROM??


 * The flu is a virus that also infects pigs


 * There are swine pigs that have this virus and farmers who raise these pigs can get the virus and spread to other people, which is how te virus got started


 * The virus came from Asian swine pigs

Most of our diseases come from animals
 * HIV came from Africa b/c the monkies there have it
 * Mad cow disease came from cows and they got it from sheep
 * Bird FLU, West NIle Virus came from mosquitoes