Treatment of bird flu

various types of avian flu virus may could cause various symptoms. Therefore, treatment may vary.

In general, treatment with the antiviral medication oseltamivir (Tamiflu) or zanamivir (Relenza) may accomplish the disease less severe if you start taking

the medicine within 48 hours after your symptoms start.

Oseltamivir may also be prescribed for bodies who reside in the same house as those diagnosed with avian flu.

The virus that causes human avian flu appears to be aggressive to the antiviral medicines amantadine and rimantadine. Therefore these medications should not

be used if an H5N1 outbreak occurs.

People with astringent infection may need to be placed on a breath machine. Experts recommend that humans diagnosed with avian flu be put in isolation.

Doctors recommend that bodies get an influenza (flu) attempt to reduce the chance of an avian flu virus mixing with a human flu virus, which would create a

new virus that may calmly spread.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has accustomed a vaccine to protect bodies from the avian flu. Experts say the vaccine could be used if the current

H5N1 virus starts spreading between people.

Avian influenza (Bird Flu:H5N1) - Causes, incidence, and risk factors

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.

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.