You may have heard of “bird flu”,”avian flu” or the H5N1 virus causing flu.You may well have wondered is this dangerous illness that I hear on the news about the same as the regular flu that people get every year. What is the difference and why the concern.?

        Bird flu is a very deadly, spread able form of the flu or influenza virus. Flu has the ability to change itself on a regular and ongoing basis. It’s a deadly and cunning foe.
It’s as if the flu virus is out to get you no matter what. This years flu will in all certainty be different than last year’s flu and even different from that of 6 months ago. In addition the flu virus specific tripe can be different in different places in the globe. Last years, or even a flu shot from 6 months ago may not protect you from getting the illness.

      What makes this specific form of flu so serious is that it is deadly similar to the flu virus which caused the great pandemic (widespread infection and disease over a large area), after World War I, in 1918.

       This flu which was first noted, isolated and named in Spain is referred to as the “Spanish Flu”. Whether it was already in America or whether it was brought back and speed by soldiers returning home from the Great War in Europe does not really matter.
What is important is by the time the plague ended, the dust settled, it is estimated that between 50 million and 100 million poor souls who never really knew how the scourge appeared and how it got to their communities.
 

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       The H5N1 “bird flu’ strain that worries the experts most, caused a nasty shock in Hong Kong. Approximately eight ago the avian bird H5N1 influenza virus struck the Hong Kong Area. The majority of the poultry in the area was sacrificed. Yet six people died in the local pandemic. Since, that point, avian flu has spread to over 65 countries in Europe, Africa, Asia and the Middle East. Millions of birds, both poultry, domesticated birds even such as ostriches, and birds in the have been stricken down.

It appears that most of the cases reported in the spread of H5N1 flu have been mainly in the area of Vietnam, China (including Hong Kong), and Indonesia. However in a worrisome trend Burma and Pakistan have reported their first spread of human infections. Nearby to Pakistan both Bangladesh and India are not reporting major outbreaks of this scourge.

         Experts warn that the only way the spread of the disease can be put under control is to get at the actual root source of the disease. If the disease is controlled at its initial base it cannot be prevalent and then spread from an initial base. Controlling the growth and cultivation of H5N1 avian virus is the most effective way of seeking control of this most lethal agent.
 
        Overall from year to year the “flu” has a mortality of between quarters of a million to half a million people worldwide each year. Major flu outbreaks are referred to as “pandemics”. A pandemic is a large scale outbreak of a disease over a large area.
In the case of the 1918 post World War 1 “Spanish Flu”, a pandemic might have been said to attack the population of the city of Baltimore. 3100 people alone perished in Baltimore.

         With modern methods of transportation the area of the pandemic would include the whole world. By the time the 1918 “Spanish flu” had run its course it is estimated that between 50 and 100 million people were killed – many of them in isolated areas of country.

        If a pandemic of flu occurs the effects would be catastrophic for the globe – and not only for countries directly affected. Normal commerce and business functions would grind almost to a halt. By this stage of a spread of the flu virus most of the spread is from person to person. People would stay at home and not go work, where they might be infected by other people at work or along the normal course of the day. Even countries not directly infected would be affected. Not only would communications not be at high levels of service but international trade would shut down as countries lock their borders to keep out the spread of the H5N1 avian flu.

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