1. What is bird flu
 

What is bird flu? What do you need to know about it? How does it affect you? Accurate and detailed information is available freely from medical professionals and on the Internet. As a brief introduction,chaussure louboutin pas cher, below are some basic facts about bird flu.

1. What is bird flu?

Avian influenza, or bird flu,christian louboutin, is a contagious disease that affects chickens, ducks, turkeys,nike mercurial, and other birds. Bird flu was first detected over 100 years ago and nowadays comes in a variety of about 20 strains. Most recently, outbreaks of the viral disease have been caused by the H5N1 strain, which is a particularly deadly strain of the virus.

2. Can I be infected with bird flu?

The H5N1 strain of the flu, also called the Asian bird flu because it recently was detected in Asia, has a small risk level for human beings because it cannot be transmitted from one human being to another. A human being can only be infected from direct contact with a sick animal. It is possible that this could change and that the strain could evolve into a virus that can be transferred from one human to another. But this is not the case now.

3. Is there a treatment for bird flu?

Professionals currently researching the Avian bird flu claim that rimantidine and amantidine,mercurial vapor, two cheap and popular flu drugs,chaussures de football, have no power over the bird flu, but Relenza and Tamiflu,chaussure louboutin, two other flu drugs, can indeed effectively treat the viral disease.

4. Is there a risk of a bird flu epidemic?

Experts in this area suggest that rapid and extensive culling and quarantining of potentially infected animals is the best way to prevent an epidemic. Another option is vaccination of birds against the bird flu virus.

Dylan Miles, journalist, and website builder,louboutin pas cher, lives in Texas. He is the owner and co-editor of http://www.immunbirdflu.info on which you will find a longer,franklin et marshall, more detailed version of this article.


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