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The viruses that cause the flu enter your body through the mucous tissue in your mouth, nose, eyes, respiratory system, and gastrointestinal system. The influenza viruses mostly affect the respiratory system when you are infected.
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What Is The Pathogen Name For Influenza?
RNA
Which type of disease does a pathogen cause infectious or noninfectious?
A pathogen causes infectious disease. For instance, influenza virus is the pathogen that causes flu.
Is flu a pathogen?
Flu is caused by a pathogen (by viruses) but is not the pathogen itself, flu is the disease the pathogen causes. Flu is short for influenza which is an infectious disease of the respiratory system caused by influenza viruses.
What happens to a person temperature if they have an infection such as influenza?
When the body is infected with a pathogen, the immune system recognizes the foreign bodies and raises the temperature to try and kill of the pathogens. This causes a fever, which is an increase in body temperature above 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit.
In transmission where is a locus where a pathogen can enter?
In medicine, the locus where a pathogen can enter would be any part of the body or surface that is moist. This includes the eyes, the nose and the mouth.
How does a pathogen enter a new reservoir?
portal of entry
What is a true pathogen and an opportunistic pathogen?
True Pathogen- are capable of causing disease in healthy persons with normal immune defenses ex. influenza virus, plague bacillus, and ect Opportunistic pathogen- cause disease when the host's defenses are compromised or when they grow in part of the body that is not natural to them
What do plasmodium infects in the human body before causing the cells to burst?
Infection allows the pathogen to enter human cells. Without infection plasmodium or any other pathogen can not enter the cells.
What type of pathogen causes chickenpox measles and mumps?
Colds, influenza and measles are all three caused by different kinds of viruses.
How is an influenza virus most likely to enter your body?
Through your nose or throat.
What does harmless pathogen do?
A harmless pathogen can be injected into your body so that the bodies defence system will learn to recognise the antigens (harmful protein located on surface of pathogen) and to fight it easily the next time having remembered the antibodies it had to produce. and sorry if this is a little confusing.
Will an antibody produce against the influenza virus lock onto a common cold virus?
No because an antibody is produced for that specific pathogen. An antibody produced against influenza will not lock onto a common cold virus because the binding site on the virus is different compared to that of an antibody.
