which thing created FLU in our body? i.e. blood or other?
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Ummm...a germ or virus. Airborne, surface borne (two day life span)
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Influenza effects the lungs while stomach virus only effects your stomach.
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Human flu symptoms are:\n\n    * fever\n    * cough\n    * sore throat\n    * muscle aches\n    * conjunctivitis\n\nCases of bird flu are more likely to cause breathing problems and pneumonia, and can be fatal.
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I just want to clear this up for the majority of the population who reads this, YOU CANNOT GET A COLD OR THE FLU FROM GOING OUTSIDE. The common cold and influenza are viruses and is only caused by being in contact with the germ. pnuemonia is a different story.
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Influenza, or ‘flu’, is a highly contagious acute viral infection that affects people of all ages. It typically starts suddenly with fever, chills, headache, aching muscles, general prostration and a cough or other respiratory symptoms. Most people recover without complications in 1-2 weeks\n\nMany of the symptoms of flu are similar to those of the common cold (see Common cold), and many people incorrectly refer to a heavy cold as ‘flu’. Viruses cause them both, but flu affects the lungs much more that a cold does. Also flu doesn’t usually give you the same congested ‘heavy headed’ feeling that a cold does.\n\nThe majority of fit, healthy people can treat the symptoms of flu at home using remedies commonly available from pharmacies.  Antibiotics are not prescribed for flu as they have no effect on viruses. They may rarely be necessary to control complications, especially serious chest infections or pneumonia.\n\nIt is usually advised that otherwise healthy people should stay at home and in bed for as long as the acute symptoms persist, this is usually for two or three days after the symptoms peak. It is important to drink plenty of fluids and to treat the symptoms as necessary. See the encyclopaedia entries on colds, sore throats and coughs for symptom relief. \n\nThere is more information on the NHS direct website about Flu and the Common cold, just perform a search
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I caught the FLU for the first time ever last Feb.  It was a nightmare.  I couldn't move much because my body ached so badly headaches ,  in and out of conciousness.  I hope I never have to go through that again.
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The best known natural medicine for flu I know of is Licorice, which has been used for the treatment of flu in china for a few thousand years.  (Flu is most likely chinese in origin).  In some studies, mice injected with a lethal dose of flu virus were more likely to survive if administered licorice than if given modern antiviral therapy.  This does not mean you should shun modern medicine for herbs, but it does show that licorice has a significant therapeutic effect in treating flu.
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The human body has a natural defence mechanism.Two examples of body secretions that help in fighting against pathogens are sweat and mucus.While sweat contains lactic acid,mucus prevents entry of large foreign particles and also contains lysozyme(a lipid splitting enzyme).Both lactic acid and lysozyme destroy pathogens by disrupting their cell membranes' integrity.
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bodily fluids (semen, blood etc)
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Blood, germs, viruses. Think it twice. It takes a hell of a long time.
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Wow some of these answers are scaring me.\n\nAIDS is caused by a VIRUS - HIV - not by people.  \n\nWhoever it was that said its been around for a long time had it right - and we won't ever know for sure how and when it started.\n\nYes, it was first identified as a "gay man's disease," but obviously, or I thought obviously, we had moved beyond that.  \n\nAnd if its "punishment," then how do you explain babies becoming infected, and the people that were infected early on from blood transfusions, etc?\n\nCome on people.  Get logical here.\n\nViruses aren't punishments.  Viruses and bacteria don't take personal inventories of those they infect.  They just biologically do their thing, and that is to make people sick.  \n\nHIV isn't a punishment anymore than the common cold or the flu is.
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WOW, I just looked into this yesterday. We must all be feeling the cold and flu season this year. \n\nIt is the other way around, feed a cold, starve a fever and I found a couple of websites that were showing figures to studies conducted over the past few years that showed this to be more than 'an old wives tale'.\n\nHere is one of the links for you if you're interested.\n\nhttp://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn1777\n\nKarma.\nx
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Go to the doctor. You may have the flu, or worse, you may have CO poisoning.
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Anyone with a cold or the flu virus feels as if they are under attack by some organism. But in the scientific community it's still an open-ended question. This is why viruses do not belong to a kingdom of living things. Just because a virus seems alive doesn't mean it is alive. After all, it's not even a single-celled organism.\n\nA virus is little more than a strand of DNA or RNA covered by a protein coating. Viruses are a thousand times smaller than bacteria and come in a wide range of shapes. Some look like weird, tall spiders whereas others look like prickly porcupinelike soccer balls.\n\nOne thing is for sure; viruses are very much a part of life on Earth and the human experience. Viruses infect animals, plants, and even bacteria. Humans are in a constant battle with viruses. HIV (the virus that causes AIDS), the Ebola virus, and the West Nile virus continue to make headlines and take millions of lives.\n\nOther maladies, such as colds, the flu, chicken pox, measles, and hepatitis, are more common, but sometimes just as deadly. Symptoms vary depending on which kind of cell is under attack. Cold viruses attack the nose and throat, the rabies virus attacks the brain and nervous system, and the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) attacks white blood cells in the bloodstream. Viruses can even cause some kinds of cancers and leukemia
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YOU GOT SICK FROM THE SPRAY THEMA FLU HELPS\nIF ITS FLU
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A general answer is Chemicals\nCertain chemicals trigger certain chemicals in your body
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The influenza virus has been around for a very long time. Various types of influenza occur in birds, pigs and cows. The closer the contact between humans and animals carrying their form of this virus, the greater the chance a human will be infected with a form of influenza.\n\nYou want to know the "reason" for the disease, I am afraid only someone who is omniscient could answer that question. This is like most diseases. Why is there a cold virus? I certainly don't know. What I do know is how it is transmitted.\n\nIf you wish to know everything known about avian influenza, its history and everything else, I will undertake a consulting contract and still not be able to answer all those questions as the answers are not know to medical science.\n\nWhat is your assignment? How many pages does your teacher wish and at what level? Please frame your question in somewhat specific terms. This is very much like asking what is the meaning of life.I can only answer parts of the question. Break it into parts and I will try to help you.