Avian or "Bird" Flu : What Are the Facts ?
Avian Bird Flu- What are the Facts : Be Prepared for A Potential Pandemic of Avian Bird Flu
Influenza A (H5N1) virus – also called “H5N1 virus” – is an flu type A virus type that occurs mainly in birds known to be highly contagious among birds.
Indeed "Bird" Flu can kill birds themselves to them. Bird Flue ( the H5N1 virus) does not usually infect people. However it has been found that from time to time infections with these viruses have occurred among people.
Most of these cases have resulted from people having direct or close contact
with bird flu infected animals or with surfaces that have come in contact with
bird flu.
What
are the human health risks during an H5N1 outbreak ? Of the few
avian influenza viruses that have crossed the species barrier to infect humans,
H5N1 has caused the largest number of detected cases of severe disease and death
in humans.
However, it is possible that those cases in the most severely ill people are
more likely to be diagnosed and reported, while milder cases go unreported.
Of the
human cases associated with the ongoing H5N1 outbreaks in poultry and wild birds
in Asia and parts of Europe, the Near East and Africa, more than one third to
one half of those people reported infected with the virus have died.
Most
cases have occurred in previously healthy children and young adults and have
resulted from direct or close contact with H5N1-infected poultry or
H5N1-contaminated surfaces. In general, H5N1 remains a very rare disease in
people. The H5N1 virus does not infect humans easily, and if a person is
infected, it is very difficult for the virus to spread to another person.
While there has been some
human-to-human spread of H5N1, it has been limited, inefficient and uncontained.
For example, in 2004 in Thailand, probable human-to-human spread in a family
resulting from prolonged and very close contact between an ill child and her
mother was reported. Most recently, in June 2006, WHO reported evidence of
human-to-human spread in Indonesia. In this situation, 8 people in one family
were infected. The first family member is thought to have become ill through
contact with infected poultry. This person then infected six family members. One
of those six people (a child) then infected another family member (his father).
No further spread outside of the exposed family was documented or suspected.
Nonetheless,
because all influenza viruses have the ability to change, scientists are
concerned that H5N1 virus one day could be able to infect humans and spread
easily from one person to another. Because these viruses do not commonly infect
humans, there is little or no immune protection against them in the human
population. If H5N1 virus were to gain the capacity to spread easily from person
to person, an influenza pandemic could well begin leading to a world wide
catastrophic spread of Bird avian flu.
No one can
predict when a pandemic might occur. However, experts from around the world are
watching the H5N1 situation in far away Asia and Europe very closely and are
preparing for the possibility that the virus may begin to spread more easily and
widely from person to person.
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