Modern days are being overwhelmed by the versatile diseases being prevailing and threatening the lives of innocents across the world equally. Many native ailments have been evolving in the recent decades whilst the resuming production of new strains of maladies across the globe. All these diseases have aroused great concern amongst the masses regarding the preventive and causative measures that can be adopted to avoid them.One of the potent diseases is that of Influenza. It has been quite popular for the past few decades with a series of researches and experiments being conducted on it. Influenza is a Latin word which carries the meaning “to influence” and is basically an infectious or a contagious disease primarily caused by the RNA viruses belonging to the family Orthomyxoviridae that affects the birds and mammals exclusively.Common symptoms related to the illness are chills, sore throat, weakness and general comfort with coughing and fever being the most common indicators. In most serious cases, Influenza can result in causing pneumonia which can prove to be quite fatal with the young and elderly people. It may also produce nauseate feelings and subsequent vomiting, particularly in children.