Bird flu; H5N1
avian influenza is flu infection in birds. The virus that causes the bird infectin can change (mutate) to affect humans. Such alteration could alpha a baleful common epidemic.
avian influenza is flu infection in birds. The virus that causes the bird infectin can change (mutate) to affect humans. Such alteration could alpha a baleful common epidemic.
Causes, incidence, and accident factors
The first avian influenza virus to affect bodies occurred in Hong Kong in 1997. The catching was affiliated to chickens and classified as avian influenza A (H5N1).
Human cases of avian influenza A (H5N1) have since been appear in Asia, Africa, Europe, Indonesia, Vietnman, the Pacific, and the abreast East. Hundreds of
bodies accept become ailing with this virus. Slightly added than 60% of those who became ill accept died.
The added the avian flu virus spreads, the greater the affairs of a common beginning in humans. There is a amazing affair that H5N1 poses an astronomic communicable threat.
The following persons have a higher risk for developing the bird flu:
* Farmers and others who plan with poultry
* Travelers visiting afflicted countries
* Those who touch an adulterated bird
* Those who eat raw or bloody banty meat, eggs, or claret from adulterated birds
Health affliction workers and domiciliary contacts of patients with avian influenza may aswell be at an added accident of the bird flu.
The avian flu virus (H5N1) has been apparent to survive in the ambiance for continued periods of time. Infection may be advance artlessly by affecting attenuated surfaces. Birds who were adulterated with this flu can abide to absolution the virus in their carrion and saliva for as continued as 10 days.
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