VIRUS DE LA GRIPPE: LES DÉFIS DU SYSTÈME IMMUNITAIREET DE LA MÉDECINEÀ LA LUMIÈRE DE L’ÉVOLUTION | INFLUENZA VIRUS: A CHALLENGE TO THE IMMUNE SYSTEM AND TO MEDICINE IN THE LIGHT OF EVOLUTION
2021
Nogueira, Teresa | Ponce, Rita
The arrival of autumn each year brings new flu outbreaks a “season” which lasts over autumn and winter. The seasonality of the disease can be explained by prevailing weather conditions of higher humidity and lower temperatures, which favour the spread of the virus that causes the disease, and the fact that we also become more susceptible to transmission of the virus by spending more time indoors in closed environments. This disease is known as the flu or influenza. The word influenza — which is also the name of the virus that causes the disease —, reflects the seasonality of the disease and is derived from an Italian word meaning “influence”. The disease was given this name because doctors in the Middle Ages believed the disease was caused by the “influence” of the stars.
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