Teams at

here for med geeks, so it's that time of year again and our little viral friend is

quickly gracing us with its presence.

As of November 2nd,

C. C. Informed the community that influenza activities low, however small increases

in activity have been seen over the prior week, aka it's a common.

So the three main strains being currently seen

are influenza A, H1N1.

This has been the most commonly public health lab

reported strain.

Influenza A, H3N2, and then influenza B.

So during the 2017, 2018 season,

influenza cases began to rise.

In November, 2017, they remained high through January, February 2018.

CDC estimates that about 48.8 million people were affected by the flu in 2017-2018 seasons. Numbers that are just shy of the 60

million cases that were seen in the 2009 H1N1 epidemic. So given that we're

entering the potential deadly influenza season, let us do a

quick review of the modes of transmission, incubation, clinical presentation, diagnosis, and management and prevention.

So we can all be ready to tackle this when it comes about.

So motive transmission, so it's droplet transmission, aka when one person who is infected coughs or sneezes in the direction of someone else,

and the virus sets up shop in the receiving person's naso-oral pharynx, this is the reason why patients diagnosed when influenza require those droplet precautions in the hospital.

Now incubations, so this is aka the time when you catch the infection to the time you start experiencing symptoms.

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