{"id":3213,"date":"2013-04-10T12:41:55","date_gmt":"2013-04-10T16:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/?p=3213"},"modified":"2013-04-10T12:49:32","modified_gmt":"2013-04-10T16:49:32","slug":"the-influenza-virus-visualized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/04\/10\/the-influenza-virus-visualized\/","title":{"rendered":"The Influenza Virus Visualized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/influenza-infographic.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3214\" src=\"http:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/influenza-infographic.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"949\" height=\"840\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/influenza-infographic.png 949w, https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/influenza-infographic-300x265.png 300w, https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/influenza-infographic-338x300.png 338w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 949px) 100vw, 949px\" \/><\/a>Humans can be infected by influenza viruses types A,B, and C. Type A affects humans, birds, and pigs. Type B and C affect only humans. Type C is less severe than type A and it does not cause pandemics.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">In this visualization by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationisbeautiful.net\/visualizations\/which-flu-virus\/\">Information is Beautiful<\/a>, we can see how the different strains of influenza virus affect humans, what is their origin, and how they are transmitted from pigs and from birds ultimately to humans.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Type A influenza is divided into H and N strains. The &#8220;swine flu&#8221; N1H1 killed 15,000 people worldwide in 2009-2010. The &#8220;bird flu&#8221; H5N1 strain, with a fatality rate of 60%, has killed <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Human_mortality_from_H5N1\">371 people<\/a> as of 2013. The more recent H7N9 strain has killed thousand of pigs in China, with <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/blogs\/health\/2013\/04\/09\/h7n9-bird-flu-death-toll-rises-to-8\/\">8 human fatalities<\/a> to date.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class='st_facebook' st_title='The Influenza Virus Visualized' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/04\/10\/the-influenza-virus-visualized\/' displayText='facebook'><\/span><span st_via='indexmundi' st_username='indexmundi' class='st_twitter' st_title='The Influenza Virus Visualized' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/04\/10\/the-influenza-virus-visualized\/' displayText='twitter'><\/span><span class='st_email' st_title='The Influenza Virus Visualized' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/04\/10\/the-influenza-virus-visualized\/' displayText='email'><\/span><span class='st_sharethis' st_title='The Influenza Virus Visualized' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/04\/10\/the-influenza-virus-visualized\/' displayText='sharethis'><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Humans can be infected by influenza viruses types A,B, and C. Type A affects humans, birds, and pigs. Type B and C affect only humans. Type C is less severe than type A and it does not cause pandemics. In this visualization by Information is Beautiful, we can see how the different strains of influenza [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<p><span class='st_facebook' st_title='The Influenza Virus Visualized' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/04\/10\/the-influenza-virus-visualized\/' displayText='facebook'><\/span><span st_via='indexmundi' st_username='indexmundi' class='st_twitter' st_title='The Influenza Virus Visualized' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/04\/10\/the-influenza-virus-visualized\/' displayText='twitter'><\/span><span class='st_email' st_title='The Influenza Virus Visualized' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/04\/10\/the-influenza-virus-visualized\/' displayText='email'><\/span><span class='st_sharethis' st_title='The Influenza Virus Visualized' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/04\/10\/the-influenza-virus-visualized\/' displayText='sharethis'><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,99,9,30],"tags":[218,880,878,1362,603,881,879,604,874,875,876,287,882,877],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3213"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3213"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3235,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3213\/revisions\/3235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}