For most people, flu is considered normal and included only a mild illness. Stay of rest and take medicine and then light cured. Many others are still business as usual when suffering from flu.
Flu will be a serious and difficult for individuals with chronic diseases such as heart, lung, diabetes mellitus, and other chronic diseases.
In fact, according to World Health Organization (WHO), every year there are five million people are hospitalized because of severe flu, aka influenza. In fact, 500,000 people worldwide die from flu and its complications.
In society, the flu is a contagious disease caused by influenza virus. This virus attacks the respiratory tract and can affect the whole body. In addition, the flu is easily transmitted through the air when sneezing, coughing, and talking.
Flu can also be transmitted through shaking hands or contact with objects contaminated with influenza virus. The most easily recognizable symptom of the flu are cough, runny nose, fever, headache, weakness, fatigue, tiredness, and sore throat. The most frequent complication of influenza is pneumonia, and may affect mortality.
Flu will be a serious and difficult for individuals with chronic diseases, like heart, lungs, diabetes mellitus, and other chronic diseases. Although apparently minor aches, flu can make the sufferer to stop the daily akitivitas like work or school. In fact, parents whose children were sick with the flu sometimes forced not to work because they have to maintain and take care of her child.
Therefore, WHO recommends that everyone get a flu shot every year. Why every year? Because every year there is a different influenza virus, and the WHO to determine the type of flu vaccine available each year in order to give the best protection against flu.
The flu vaccine causes the body to react against the flu virus. The flu vaccine can protect yourself from flu by 70-90 percent.
Those who need to get a flu shot are those aged 6 months upwards. Another group of high-risk individuals, such as people with diabetes, par diseases, asthma, and hypertension.
Outside they are pregnant women, residents of hospitals, nursing homes and care facilities. No lag, which often interact in groups and risk of transmitting the high-risk groups, namely the mother, baby sitter, as well as medical personnel (doctors, nurses, paramedics, and health workers).