Avian Flu

Have you ever gone to the South eastern parts of Asia about a year or two ago? If you have been there you may have experienced that it is not only the luggage that are checked but as well as your temperature and skin to see if there are skin rashes. They have done this because of the rising number break-out of avian influenza or commonly known as bird flu.

Bird flu like any common flu needs a host or something that the virus could adapt to. Avian flu inflicts birds that cause sudden mass kill of flocks. Avian flu does not only infect birds but as well humans and is also as fatal as its infects birds and others of the same kind. Avian flu for humans has the same symptoms as flu only a lot more fatal because it triggers both the respiratory and central nervous system.

August 17 2008 09:14 pm | Flu

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