What are the similarities and differences between the common flu and corona?

The Dhaka Times Desk What are the similarities and differences between the common flu and corona? You may not know them. Find out today. It will benefit you.

We are all familiar with cold, cough, fever, shortness of breath, headache. In general, if all these symptoms are too much, it was thought about viral flu until a few days ago. But now the situation has completely changed. When all these symptoms appear, new thoughts are starting about whether the corona virus (Covid-19) has stopped or not.

The symptoms of these two types of fever are so similar that even doctors are struggling to diagnose the disease. It is often too late to catch the disease. So it is good to know for the benefit of diagnosis, how these two types of fever can be. Moreover, where is the similarity?

Common flu and corona have similarities

# Two types of influenza-E virus-borne disease.

# Both diseases are infectious diseases.

Both # diseases are capable of spreading from the human body.

# Both types of flu can turn into pneumonia if not caught in time or if exaggerated.

where is the difference

# Common flu and corona are both viral diseases, but the viruses of the two diseases are not homologous. The common flu is caused by an outbreak of the influenza virus and Covid-19 is caused by a virus of the corona group.

# Corona Virus also spreads very fast. Compared to that, the influenza virus spreads much more slowly.

In # common flu, illness occurs within 2 to 3 days of exposure to the virus. In the case of corona, the illness appears within 7-14 days of exposure to the virus.

# During the common flu, the fever can go up to 103-104 degrees, but it starts to come down again when the medicine starts working. Even if the fever is strong during corona, it does not want to go down very easily. Medicines don't work then either.

# does not require a separate test to diagnose common flu. However, if you want to know whether it is Corona or not, Polymerase Chain Reaction or PCR test is done.

# contains the required vaccine for common flu. However, the researchers have not found any vaccine to prevent Corona so far.