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Statistics On The Spread Of H5N1 Virus

Thursday, 04 September 2008
By Paul Hata Bird flu is of many types. There are generally many kinds of flu that can infect birds i.e. wild birds as well as domestic birds, like chickens or turkeys. But currently, health officials have been especially concerned about one particular strain of bird flu. The virus is also known as H5N1, it can make humans as well as birds also severely ill. The H5N1 flu virus has affected many a hundreds of thousands of birds, and more than 200 humans worldwide. Health officials are concerned that the bird flu will become the next pandemic influenza strain in humans. However, it's very difficult for people to get H5N1 bird flu from each other. Most people get it from infected with the direct contact with birds or their droppings. That's why there have been so many human cases. Statistics of the recent outbreak of the bird flu A recent influenza outbreak, formally called H5N1 after two distinctive proteins on the flu virus, has so far mainly affected birds. In the last decade the virus has appeared in birds in China, Hong Kong, Tag it:
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Serious Human Outbreak of Bird Flu

Wednesday, 03 September 2008
By Paul Hata China has reported only three confirmed cases of H5N1 in people of which a boy in Hunan province who recovered, and two women in Anhui province who died, the latest of which was announced on Thursday. There was another possible case in Hunan. The potential problem of underreporting might not only be technical. There are also many a claims that Chinese medical personnel have been arrested for trying to report cases. China imposed serious restrictions on the investigation and reporting of suspected cases of bird flu in June 2005. Opinion of Virologists Virologists consider the relative absence of human cases of bird flu in China strange, given its widespread infection in birds. China has reported 22 poultry eruption in 10 provinces all across the country since mid-October 2005, the latest being on Friday. The WHO told the official Chinese news agency Xinhua last week that the virus that caused the eruption in Hunan is the same as the H5N1 flu in Vietnam and Thailand, where it has caused 113 confirmed human cases and 55 deaths so far. Officials said five Tag it:
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