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Bird flu (avian influenza/avian flu) is a disease caused by an influenza virus (H5N1) that primarily affects birds.  Bird flu is a fatal disease of chickens, turkeys, guinea fowls, and other avian species, especially migratory waterfowl. Thisvirus that causes the bird infection can mutate to infect humans. It is a contagious disease and spreads from person to person through respiratory droplets while coughing and sneezing. The flu is different from a cold and the symptoms can vary from a mild disease with little or no mortality to a highly fatal, rapidly spreading epidemic depending on the infecting virus strain, host factors and environmental stressors. Anyone including healthy people can contact avian flu, and serious problems from influenza may appear at any age. People at risk for developing bird flu are -  Farmers and other poultry workers Travelers visiting affected countries Those who eat raw or undercooked poultry meat, eggs, or blood from infected birdsFever, headache, body ache, sore throat, nasal congestion and dry cough are some of the symptoms of bird flu. Treatment of bird flu involves isolation of the patient and taking the antiviral medication, oseltamivir. |
Latest Publication and Research on Bird Flu - Updated on 04/18/2013.
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Vero cell culture-derived pandemic influenza vaccines: preclinical and clinical development. - Published by PubMed
Prokaryote-expressed M2e protein improves H9N2 influenza vaccine efficacy and protection against lethal influenza a virus in mice. - Published by PubMed
Antigenic and genetic characteristics of zoonotic influenza viruses and development of candidate vaccine viruses for pandemic preparedness. - Published by PubMed
Information ethics. - Published by PubMed
Experimental Infection of European Starlings (Sturnus vulgaris) and House Sparrows (Passer domesticus) with Pandemic 2009 H1N1 and Swine H1N1 and H3N2 Triple Reassortant Influenza Viruses. - Published by PubMed
Vero cell culture-derived pandemic influenza vaccines: preclinical and clinical development. - Published by PubMed
Prokaryote-expressed M2e protein improves H9N2 influenza vaccine efficacy and protection against lethal influenza a virus in mice. - Published by PubMed
Antigenic and genetic characteristics of zoonotic influenza viruses and development of candidate vaccine viruses for pandemic preparedness. - Published by PubMed
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Posted on: 02/15/2011 Symptoms of avian influenza in humans have ranged from typical human influenza-like symptoms [fever, cough, sore throat, and muscle aches] to eye infections, pneumonia, severe respiratory diseases (such as acute respiratory distress syndrome).
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